[kde-linux] Lost system desktop icons on KDE3.1

[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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