Bug 157940

Summary:	Missing panel and taskbar
Product:	[Plasma] plasma4	Reporter:	Tom Cada <thomas.cada>
Component:	panel	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	seahen123, zoom_re
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Tom Cada 2008-02-16 20:09:58 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.0.1)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
OS:                Linux

I have installed KDE$ version 4.01 KDE 4.0.x>=20080201  "release 12.1" from the openSUSE web site using their "1 click" install.

The screen shows properly with all of the widgets but ther is no panel at the bottom. The start button and everything else is missing.

Thanks... Tom.

Comment 1 Aaron J. Seigo 2008-02-17 10:34:37 UTC

this is either an installation or packaging problem; it works fine in upstream sources. if you have a ~/.kde/share/config/plasma-appletsrc file, try stopping plasma (kquitapp plasma), removing that file and then trying again.

there was a bug in 4.0.0 that could lead to panel loss due if a crash occured at just the "right" (or, rather, wrong ;) time resulting in an incomplete configuration save. that has been fixed, however, and is the only thing i'm aware of that was in the plasma codebase that was creating such a problem.

Comment 2 Tom Cada 2008-02-17 16:44:26 UTC

Thanks. That did the trick. Note that the file was in .kde4 and not .kde. I renamed it and on starting KDE4, the panel appeared.

Tom.

Comment 3 Aaron J. Seigo 2008-04-20 00:21:19 UTC

*** Bug 161030 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Chris 2008-06-05 19:33:38 UTC

I've tried this (with .kde4) and it still doesn't work, even after logging out, restarting the X server and logging back in. I'm using Kubuntu Hardy Heron. Request that this bug be reopened.

Comment 5 Aaron J. Seigo 2008-06-05 21:15:42 UTC

no, because the bug has been fixed. there's no point in opening a bug that's been fixed just because you aren't using a version with the fix in it =)

Comment 6 Chris 2008-06-05 23:45:09 UTC

Then what do I need to do to get the fix, given that I'm using Kubuntu?