Re: [SLE] desktop icons problem

From: Radule Soskic (rms_at_telekom.yu)
Date: 05/25/05

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Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 11:03:08 +0200

    On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 11:37 +0100, Kevanf1 wrote:
    > On 24/05/05, Radule Soskic <rms@telekom.yu> wrote:
    > > 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 

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