First, remember that YMMV!
I had been bugged by the way KDE3 and then KDE4 operated on my system.
Among the problems: update notifier no longer worked. I tried every tip I could find on the message board and nothing worked. I had to run apt-get daily by hand.
The shutdown icons on menus quit working. The only reliable way to take the system down gracefully was to open a terminal and do a "sudo shutdown -P". Sometimes that didn't work, and I would be left at the "Startup Recovery Menu" and have to hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete to finish the job.
There were more, including some networking problems, but my frustration was growing. I noticed in a thread that KDE would create a new .kde directory in my home directory if the old one were to be deleted. I backed up that tree to another drive (naming it kde-save), and blew it away from the home directory. After a restart, I restored various subdirectories especially autostart.
The result was that update notifier started working again, as did the various shutdown and restart icons, the USB notifier, and several other things that had been bothering me through their absence. This turned out pretty much to be a "Magic Bullet" for my interface problems--and it did not take much reconfiguration 8)
I had been bugged by the way KDE3 and then KDE4 operated on my system.
Among the problems: update notifier no longer worked. I tried every tip I could find on the message board and nothing worked. I had to run apt-get daily by hand.
The shutdown icons on menus quit working. The only reliable way to take the system down gracefully was to open a terminal and do a "sudo shutdown -P". Sometimes that didn't work, and I would be left at the "Startup Recovery Menu" and have to hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete to finish the job.
There were more, including some networking problems, but my frustration was growing. I noticed in a thread that KDE would create a new .kde directory in my home directory if the old one were to be deleted. I backed up that tree to another drive (naming it kde-save), and blew it away from the home directory. After a restart, I restored various subdirectories especially autostart.
The result was that update notifier started working again, as did the various shutdown and restart icons, the USB notifier, and several other things that had been bothering me through their absence. This turned out pretty much to be a "Magic Bullet" for my interface problems--and it did not take much reconfiguration 8)
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