Re: [newbie] Re: Desktop Icons

[David]

E. Hines wrote:

I'm still on 9.1 here.  The old Kaddressbook (assuming you use kmail, of 
course) was the /home/your_username/.kde/share/apps/kab    --  If it has been 
changed in the newest version of kde I wouldn't know.   One way to check is 
to open it up and see if it is an addressbook file.  Kwrite can read the 
contents.
I like Anne's solution of renaming .kde to something else.  Then you can 
always restore from the backup.  Probably still have to use the "import" 
function in the addressbook to restore the addresses, though.  I don't know 
why simply copying the kab has never worked for me.  But first, does a new 
user have the same icon problem on the desktop, or not?

Back to the Christmas ham, now.

Firstly, the icons for the new user work as I would expect, ie they sit 
where they are placed. Well that was then just been back there and they 
had resumed their position on the left but not as jumbled up.

Secondly,  Mozilla is currently my client of choice.   
/home/your_username/.kde/share/apps/kab   is there. However, I do not 
use Kmail  as the address book does not wish to accept entries, it keeps 
saying something about it being used by another application when saving. 
Having said that, just tried the address book in the new user and it 
accepted the entry no problem.

Anne wrote:

Or maybe  /~/.kde/share/apps/kabc ?   I see that in my old install directory I have kab but in 

the new install it is kabc.

I have both 'kab' with nothing in it and 'kabc' with one directory,  
/lock  and one file  std.vcf.  [when I up-graded to 9.2 it was as an 
install not and upgrade]

There is a  /usr/share/apps/kabc   but no kab.

I was thinking [I know a dangerous pastime, especially for someone with 
very little knowledge on the subject under discussion :-) ] what would 
happen if I deleted 'kab' as just maybe 'kabc' is an updated directory 
for 'kab'. But then if there is nothing in it then it should not be 
upsetting the apple cart.

Or maybe even uninstall kmail and then reinstall??

David

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