Thanks Nick,

Problem solved !
Just the icons had dissapeared, but I don't know why.  It only 
happened when I switched on.  I did do an update last night and 
continued used the machine afterwards and things were ok then.

Thank you for the info, without it I wouldn't have know where to look.



On Wednesday 11 March 2015 22:02:28 Baron wrote:
> 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