Lost system desktop icons on KDE3.1

[AG-21]

On my wife's KDE3.1 Debian Lenny system, she has lost the home, trash,
etc.  Instead, she has a couple of ordinary looking directory-type icons
that are just files she has saved to the desktop.

She is keen to have those icons restored (I don't know when they
disappeared, only when she told me that it was bugging her), but having
gone through the available menus, I can't see any option that enables me
to reset this for her.

Can anyone help me help her?

TIA

AG
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[Anne Wilson-5]

On Tuesday 13 October 2009 20:15:15 AG wrote:

> On my wife's KDE3.1 Debian Lenny system, she has lost the home, trash,
> etc.  Instead, she has a couple of ordinary looking directory-type icons
> that are just files she has saved to the desktop.
>
> She is keen to have those icons restored (I don't know when they
> disappeared, only when she told me that it was bugging her), but having
> gone through the available menus, I can't see any option that enables me
> to reset this for her.
>
> Can anyone help me help her?
>

Right-click on the 'bad' icon and select Properties.  You then need to click

on the icon square, when you will be presented with icons to choose from.  You
might have to browse around a bit, but you should find the correct one.  When
you select it, it will be saved and used.

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[Irina Rempt]

On Tuesday 13 October 2009 21:39 Anne Wilson wrote:

> On Tuesday 13 October 2009 20:15:15 AG wrote:
> > On my wife's KDE3.1 Debian Lenny system, she has lost the home, trash,
> > etc.  Instead, she has a couple of ordinary looking directory-type
> > icons that are just files she has saved to the desktop.
> >
> > She is keen to have those icons restored (I don't know when they
> > disappeared, only when she told me that it was bugging her), but having
> > gone through the available menus, I can't see any option that enables
> > me to reset this for her.
> >
> > Can anyone help me help her?
>
> Right-click on the 'bad' icon and select Properties.  You then need to
>  click on the icon square, when you will be presented with icons to
>  choose from.  You might have to browse around a bit, but you should find
>  the correct one.  When you select it, it will be saved and used.

I think it's not that she has the wrong icons for the right things, but that
the links *themselves* (to Home, Trash, etcetera) have disappeared.

(goodness, I haven't used KDE 3 for so long that I don't know how to put
those back; someone else, please?)

   Irina

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[Dr. Edgar Alwers]

On Tuesday 13 October 2009 21:15:15 AG wrote:

> On my wife's KDE3.1 Debian Lenny system, she has lost the home, trash,
> etc.  Instead, she has a couple of ordinary looking directory-type icons
> that are just files she has saved to the desktop.
>
> She is keen to have those icons restored (I don't know when they
> disappeared, only when she told me that it was bugging her), but having
> gone through the available menus, I can't see any option that enables me
> to reset this for her.
>
> Can anyone help me help her?

We have had the same problem here ( my wife's PC ! ) some days ago. Try first
starting kde not as user but as root. The icons should be there. The problem
here resulted to be, as Irina said,  a link problem. Involved qt !

Try first Anne's instructions. Then start kde as root, and then we shall see !
good luck
Edgar
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[AG-21]

Dr. Edgar Alwers wrote:

On Tuesday 13 October 2009 21:15:15 AG wrote:
  

On my wife's KDE3.1 Debian Lenny system, she has lost the home, trash,
etc.  Instead, she has a couple of ordinary looking directory-type icons
that are just files she has saved to the desktop.

She is keen to have those icons restored (I don't know when they
disappeared, only when she told me that it was bugging her), but having
gone through the available menus, I can't see any option that enables me
to reset this for her.

Can anyone help me help her?
    

We have had the same problem here ( my wife's PC ! ) some days ago. Try first 
starting kde not as user but as root. The icons should be there. The problem 
here resulted to be, as Irina said,  a link problem. Involved qt !

Try first Anne's instructions. Then start kde as root, and then we shall see !
good luck
Edgar
  

Just to be clear - the suggestion is to log out of KDE and log back in as root?  If the icons (yes, Irina you are right in what I meant) are there then it is a linking problem?  If so, then I need to follow Anne's suggestion and rename them via the properties option from a right-click context menu?

Thanks for the ideas: I'll report back on the outcomes.

AG


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[g-30]

AG wrote:
> On my wife's KDE3.1 Debian Lenny system, she has lost the home, trash,
> etc.  Instead, she has a couple of ordinary looking directory-type icons
> that are just files she has saved to the desktop.

have you considered creating new user and then pulling default '*.desktop'
icons from new user's '~/Desktop'? do change owner.

as for 'etc' icons, she will need to recreate them.

also, as root. run 'updatedb', and 'locate trash.desktop>locate-trash' then
open file to see if there is a 'trash.desktop' owned by your wife and in
wrong place. a long shot, but you never know.

as a suggestion, have her create a subdirectory in her home directory, such
as '~/documents/desktop-notes'. next, create a link to desktop for directory.

use this to drop into anything that she would normally save to desktop. then
link from that directory to her desktop.

this can be done for default icons also, and will prevent anything but links
being deleted in future.

hth.

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[david-602]

Irina Rempt wrote:

> On Tuesday 13 October 2009 21:39 Anne Wilson wrote:
>> On Tuesday 13 October 2009 20:15:15 AG wrote:
>>> On my wife's KDE3.1 Debian Lenny system, she has lost the home, trash,
>>> etc.  Instead, she has a couple of ordinary looking directory-type
>>> icons that are just files she has saved to the desktop.
>>>
>>> She is keen to have those icons restored (I don't know when they
>>> disappeared, only when she told me that it was bugging her), but having
>>> gone through the available menus, I can't see any option that enables
>>> me to reset this for her.
>>>
>>> Can anyone help me help her?
>> Right-click on the 'bad' icon and select Properties.  You then need to
>>  click on the icon square, when you will be presented with icons to
>>  choose from.  You might have to browse around a bit, but you should find
>>  the correct one.  When you select it, it will be saved and used.
>
> I think it's not that she has the wrong icons for the right things, but that
> the links *themselves* (to Home, Trash, etcetera) have disappeared.
>
> (goodness, I haven't used KDE 3 for so long that I don't know how to put
> those back; someone else, please?)

Sounds like something got hosed in her home folder, like maybe her
Desktop folder or something in the hidden .kde folder.

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