I just removed my down main panel mistakenly from the desktop using kde4.1.
How can i restore it with the previous components.
2nd i add widgets from Internet, but its not in showing in the widget panel to add to desktop.
How can i enable to add that widgets.
Thanks in advance.
I have the same problem with widget, I install bunch of widget through internet option, and none of them available for adding. But when I check the download option, the widget are marked as installed, there are only uninstall option available.
If you already know the solution, please share it.
I have the same problem with widget, I install bunch of widget through internet option, and none of them available for adding. But when I check the download option, the widget are marked as installed, there are only uninstall option available.
If you already know the solution, please share it.
I have found this thread, but not sure how to edit that file for new contents.
link
Similar discussion here. Hope it provides enough info. Edit this file with a shell based editor such as vi, nano, or pico. Alternatively, use kwrite.
I’ve stopped using KDE 4 for the moment, so I can’t offer detailed advice.
Thanks for the link, I have open the .kde4/share/config/plasma-appletsrc file, but cannot understand it content, does someone else?
PS: sorry for the double posting before, network problem 
Same here mate.
Still searching for the right answer.
Editing that file is not easy for me.
I cant understand how to add new things to it. and what will be the newly added data.
you might consider the fact that KDE4 is just not yet at the development
stage that all questions about its actions or miss-actions (also know as
faults) can be explained, AND solved by the non-hacker, non-developer
user (like myself, and apparently you)…
here, let me quote from “NEWBIES - Suse-11.0 Pre-installation
Preparation – PLEASE READ” at http://tinyurl.com/3vwrzl
"7. KDE-4.0.x NOT RECOMMENDED FOR NEWBIES. Please note KDE-4.0.x is
still very experimental and it is not recommended for Newbies. It is
intended mainly for developers and cutting edge hackers or those who
live and breath on the cutting edge of the latest software updates.
Newbies, during the install please select KDE-3.5.9 or Gnome desktops
instead, in order to obtain more stability.
Further to the KDE-4.0x caution, please note the Live CD for KDE ONLY
comes with KDE-4.0.x and not KDE-3.5.9. to get KDE-3.5.9 one must
install off of the DVD and not the Live CD."
and i add a further note to that: Your life will be more simple if you
decide to install and use KDE3-something. It is available in YaST…
enjoy it…fast, stable, controllable…SWEET!
then, check in on KDE4’s development in six months or a year…maybe
then it will be as sweet.
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DenverD (Linux Counter 282315)
A Texan in Denmark
@mmarif4u
For the panel problem, have you try to right-click on desktop and add new panel from there?
yeh, i manage that already.
Yesterday after removing, i tried to work around on it. and succeeded to make new panel.Now its working smoothly.
@DenverD
How about kde4.1.1 or 4.1.0. I went to kde site and they mention there that 4.1.0 is a stable version now.
i am using 4.1.0 not 4.0.0.
I’ve been playing with the KDE-4.1 live CD (hosted on kde.org) , and my 1st two boots I removed the panel each time! :rolleyes: I finally learned NOT to do that. … and fortunately with a liveCD, a simple reboot and its back.
But IMHO we may need end up having to create a wiki or how-to or “tip and trick” stating how to recover from the removal.
Simply adding the panel is easy, but finding the correct items to put in the panel is a bit harder IMHO.
Yup, i am agree here. simply adding panel is easy. but finding the correct app to add is bit difficult and hard for newbies specially.
Some how it need a wiki or howto as oldcpu mentioned in the above post.
> Yup, i am agree here. simply adding panel is easy.
wouldn’t you think it would be easier still if the developers could come
up with a way to make it just a little harder to delete the MAIN panel
accidentally…like (though i HATE’em) an “Are you sure you wanna
delete that permanently?”
or, let me ask as i’ve seen now about a million (maybe less :D) folks
who have dumped their panel: what were you (and the others) trying to
do when you deleted your?
and, when that is know: ask the developers to make that (or those)
task(s) more obvious…
just my too sense 
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DenverD (Linux Counter 282315)
A Texan in Denmark
Good question, how my panel is deleted. because of that message which you mention in your post.i was doing things fast.
My opinion is to lock the permanent one panel, i mean to not be removable in any case. simply take the down panel. which will be editable but not removable.OR give option to hide as was before.
And most of panel have this opt ti hide.
Just my opinion.
Sometimes its easier, … sometimes its not so easy.
But in the mean time, until the developers come up with an approach that the community and developers both think is better, wouldn’t you think a little pragmatism is useful? ie write a wiki, how-to, or tip-and-trick now. Not tomorrow, … not next week. Now! Granted its only an interim measure, but at least its practical, its pragmatic, and its immediate!
Pragmatism means in this case, one of us (who knows how to repopulate the menu) can probably write a wiki, how-to, or tip-and-trick in less than 30-minutes, … but we can spend months (or more) with countless emails harping, complaining, pounding the desk, whining, shouting, bribing, smooth talking, taking out for a drink, taking out for dinner, threatening to leave for Gnome, harping about the KDE version inadequacy … etc … etc … ad-nausium … what ever, to get the change we want from the developers.
So in the meantime, while all that is going on, why not write the wiki, how-to, or tip-and-trick? :rolleyes:
I guess I have a SIGNIFICANTLY different perspective as to “what is easy” and “what is not easy” than what you have.
In my case, I was trying to remove an icon (or maybe its called a widget) on the panel. So I had thought I was deleting that. I selected the icon/widget and pressed “delete”. I was asked “are you sure you want to delete this?” (or something like that, I need try deletion again to get the correct warning words) and I gleefully (and mistakenly) selected “YES” to delete. And there went my panel! :eek:
Fortunately, it was a liveCD, and a restart cured all.
If it was a regular install (not the Live CD), couldn’t you simply delete or rename the .kde4 directory in your home directory and log off then back on? That should AFAIK give you back the default panel (though you would lose any customizations you had made).
As a follow up, it was pointed out this could be interpretted as an insult to a specific person, and I want to make it clear that is NOT the intent.
Rather its a general statement of the efforts that in life one sometimes need to go through to get their way. 
20 years ago, some of those attributes (except the bribing part, unless one considers a bottle of scotch a bribe) could have been attributed to me. :rolleyes:
So I will stop there, and I’m hoping this public post/statement of mine will ease any concerns about any specific insults being intended, when nothing could be further from the intention of mine.
***Perfect ***solution of your (and my too) problem is here Projects/Plasma/FAQ - KDE TechBase see troubleshooting section.
This is official Plasma FAQ from KDE TechBase.
Read it completely ** - and ** visit YouTube - lots of good video-demonstrations and tutorials
Tutorial : new panel-less kde plasma desktop layout
KDE 4.1 - Using the Folder View
and much more… 