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

[david]

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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David
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