Recently I posted a question about the location of the files KDE uses to
keep the information about the KMENU icon in the lower left corner (on
most systems). Only the Applications subpanel are directly editable
with the menu editor and indirectly the Favorites. The 'Computer'
subpanel contains several icons, one of which is the "remote:/" icon.
On my system, when I press this, I get a 'Malformed URL' error
message. From the 'My Computer' icon with the navigation panel on, if
I select the Network icon, same deal. HOWEVER, if I open up Konqueror
and manually type in 'remote:/' I get a list including icons for
previously defined 'fish' sesssions produced by the wizard.
I have other users on my system WITHOUT this problem so I (as root)
copied their desktop config file to my desktop (renamed) but that
function still failed.
Related is my TRASHCAN. I cannot open it. I can drag files to it and
they are properly 'deleted' but I cannot empty the trashcan nor open it
to recover deleted files. I know the drag and delete works because
using MC the files are in the proper places in .local in my /home
account and if I manually remove the contents in both places (the files
and the index to them), the desktop icon changes to indicate empty. I
just get the malformed url error anytime I try to open or manipulate the
icon by clicking on it OTHER THAN by dropping files to be deleted on it
which still works. Again, copying a trashcan from another user only
creates another trashcan, neither of which work...and the original
cannot itself be deleted.
Please, I am sure this is a grunged configuration problem IF I can find
it. I do not think the Microsoft solution of reinstallation is viable
with Linux. Please don't suggest it, my mentality is too far removed
from Windows to take that seriously at this point. :) As the problem
is local to a single user, I believe the problem to be local to
/home/.<user>/