On 12/02/12 06:54, phanisvara das wrote:
On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:57:42 +0530, Ken Schneider - openSUSE <suse-list3@bout-tyme.net> wrote:
Just upgraded KDE from 4.7 to 4.8 and all of the icons on my desktop went missing. Is there a way to restore what I had short of recreating them manually?
did you check your desktop settings (right-click on the desktop -> folder view / desktop settings). perhaps you had it configured as "folder view" previously, and somehow it turned into "default desktop" during the upgrade. if that's the case, changing this setting back to "folder view" should return your icons.
For what it's worth, I've had exactly that experience with three separate installs of oS 12.1 upgraded from KDE 4.7 to 4.8. The three machines are a 64-bit desktop, a 32-bit laptop (Dell XPS M1530) and a 32-bit netbook (ASUS EeePC 1015PEM). In each case I'd been using a locally-configured Folder View as the default desktop in KDE4.7, but the upgrade(s) to 4.8 resulted in default to the basic "Desktop" view sans the expected Folder View icons. Manual selection of Folder View then restored the screen to what I'd had before, icons and all; so the preferred configurations had been preserved though not the selection of destop. Beyond that, some of my local preferences for Dolphin were also lost in the upgrade, and had to be restored manually. And beyond that again, I've had oddities with phonon backends in KDE4.8. In 4.7 I'd been using GStreamer as the preferred phonon backend, and it had worked well in all regards. In 4.8, however, either Amarok won't play MP3s or Digikam (or Gwenview) won't play an MP3 soundtrack in Advanced Slideshow unless I use VLC as the phonon backend. That is, in KDE4.8 neither the GStreamer nor the Xine backends will give me both Amarok and the slideshow soundtrack (.mp3), yet all three backends worked well in 4.7 (and system sounds work in 4.8 with any of the three backends). If I said I could begin to suggest reasons for this behaviour I'd be lying, but because it happens identically on three quite different machines, hardware seems much less likely to be the culprit than something in the software combination KDE4.8/Amarok/Digikam etc/phonon backends. Robin K (from the Antipodes) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org