Updated to the latest Plasma Desktop, on one of my systems (Fedora 23, x86_64), and found that the ‘Favorites’ had all vanished, apart for xterm..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 My other x86_64 system updated OK, with all the ‘Favorites’ intact..<\/p>\n
Rather than hunt down all the apps and ‘add to favorites’ for each one, I found the old Favorites again, as follows:<\/p>\n
Go to ~\/.config<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Edit \u00a0plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Remove the ‘new’ entry marked [Containments][1][Applets][2][Configuration][General]<\/span><\/strong> Then rename [Containments][1][Applets][2][Configuration]<\/span><\/strong> The original ‘favorites’ should then appear, and the format is updated in plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc<\/span><\/strong>..<\/p>\n This does not always occur, as my ‘older’ system (with the same software versions etc.) did not<\/span> suffer from this problem..<\/p>\n Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0 December 9, 2015.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Updated to the latest Plasma Desktop, on one of my systems (Fedora 23, x86_64), and found that the ‘Favorites’ had all vanished, apart for xterm..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 My other x86_64 system updated OK, with all the ‘Favorites’ intact.. Rather than hunt down all the apps and ‘add to favorites’ for each one, I found the old Favorites again, as …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,13,15,20,1236],"tags":[161,207,1240,1242,1241],"class_list":["post-1626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fedora","category-hacks","category-kde-2","category-linux-2","category-performance-2","category-plasma-desktop","tag-fix","tag-kde","tag-plasma-desktop","tag-some-systems-ok","tag-update-loses-favorites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1627,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions\/1627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nand find the original ‘Favorites’ settings under [Containments][1][Applets][2][Configuration]<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n
\nto [Containments][1][Applets][2][Configuration][General]<\/span><\/strong> and restart the desktop..<\/p>\n