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Re: [trinity-users] Icons on task bar

From: Baron <baron@...>
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 22:02:28 +0000
Hi Nick,

On Wednesday 11 March 2015 21:56:23 Nick Koretsky wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 21:38:02 +0000
>
> Baron <baron@...> wrote:
> > > > Jessie, TDE 14,
> > > > Just switched on tonight and all the icons on my task bar and
> > > > system tray are missing !  Where are the settings for these
> > > > hiding ? Thanks:
> > >
> > > You mean application links on Panel?
> >
> > Yes ! the bar across the bottom of the screen.
> >
> > > The settings are
> > > in ./trinity/config/kickerrc, but if you mean your custom app
> > > links disappeared during 13->14 update, this is probably due to
> > > update script messing with
> > > ./config/menus/applications-kmenuedit.menu.Update script
> > > renames it to applications-tmenuedit.menu and runs "kde"->"tde"
> > > replace on its context,
> >
> > Does that mean that I can rename it back or am I stuck with what
> > ever  "kde"->"tde" did.
>
> No you cant. TDE now sources applications-tmenuedit.menu, not
> applications-kmenuedit.
>
> > > which is not a very smart move because depending on how
> > > custom menu items were made they can easily contain "kde" in
> > > name. Look in ~/.local/share/applications and if there is
> > > something with "kde" in its name rename it to "tde" (or
> > > manually edit applications-tmenuedit.menu, but you cant run
> > > replace all "tde"->"kde" because tde standard menuitems where
> > > actually renamed)
> >
> > Ah right.   I have everything backed up, so if I just restore
> > ~/.local/share/applications
> > I should get things back to how I had them before the update.
>
> No. The update doesn't touch ~/.local/share/applications, and that
> is a problem. The filenames of .desktop files remain with "kde" but
> in applications-tmenuedit.menu they are referred with "tde". As i
> said you have to either edit applications-tmenuedit.menu or rename
> files in ~/.local/share/applications.

Found It ! " ~/.local/share/applications"  is empty !  Nothing in 
there.  The backup has a number of icons.
I'll come back after a reboot.


-- 
Best Regards:
            Baron