Re: Problem with KDE 3 upgrade

[William Bradley <bradleyw@magma.ca>]

On Monday 01 September 2003 03:59 pm, Donald Spoon wrote:
> William Bradley wrote:
> > -SNIP- <
> >
> >
> > Hi Andreas,
> >
> > Tried you suggestion above and another couple of hours downloading went
> > on. So obviously some bits were missing.
> >
> > When I boot to KDE now, KDE 3.1 loads and the standard icons come up on
> > the screen but there is no panel at the bottom. When I right click the
> > mouse I can make some changes but I can't find a way to get to the KDE
> > control panel.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Bill.
>
> I had the same "problem" when I upgraded from KDE 2.2 to 3.1.X.  The
> solution I found was to move the old ~/.kde directory out of the way and
> let KDE re-build it the next time I logged in.  You could just delete
> the .kde directory, but that would remove any "history" you might want
> to save.  I had to do this in all the "user" directories on my system,
> including the "root" directory.
>
> There may be a cleaner way, but I couldn't find it...

Hi Donald, your solution was "clean" enough. It fixed the problem.

Thank you,

Bill.