Re: [SLE] desktop icons problem

On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 11:37 +0100, Kevanf1 wrote:

On 24/05/05, Radule Soskic wrote:

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I just installed 9.3 on my computer. It was new installation but without /home partition formating (the previous system was 9.2 fully kernel and KDE updated)

I updated my new installation via yast and installed a number of packages... I can not recall when, but sometime during this update/install process, my desktop icons started to behave strangely: "trash", "my computer" and "network browsing" don't work anymore. They just display "Malformed URL" error messages, with the respective url named in the message ("trash:/", "media:/" or "remote:/")... When I enter any of the urls in konqueror url field they work...

Hmm I have seen a very similar message when I installed 9.3 on a drive last week. I logged into the KDE desktop but none of my icons appeared. This was the second time I had logged on and the first time everything was fine. I I got the malformed URL message as soon as the tray icons had loaded. I logged out of that session and back in again where, this time, everything was back as it should be. It has no happened again.

Very strange...

Well, it seems that I solved the problem, but I did not find the explanation. 1. As su root, I renamed my home dir from /home/user to /home/user.back 2. As su root, I created new /home/user and chowned it to user 3. Logged in as user again. Now, KDE built new Desktop with default background and all the icons. The new icons work OK now. 4. I moved all necessary stuf from /home/user.back to /home/user (I did not move all ".xxxx" hiden folders) Conclusion: the bit of difference that broke my "Trash", "Network browsing" and "My Computer" desktop icons is burried somewhere in hidden folders or files that reside in home dir. Since I am a long time SuSE user, upgrading from release to release without formatting /home partition, my home was full of all sorts of ".*" stuff. I gave up further investigation, for now, but would appreciate anybody's thoughts or explanations on this subject. I would really like to learn where are the suse 9.3 file associations' and konqueror special protocols' information hidden? I tried all the documentation and googled all around just to find nothing about that. TIA cikasole