try this:

sudo chown -R gerard /var/tmp/kdecache-gerard
sudo chown -R gerard ~/.kde

how do you become superuser and what do you do as superuser - as best as I can tell Google'ing that could be the cause

what is the result of the command:

whoami && kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental

google01103 wrote:try this:

sudo chown -R gerard /var/tmp/kdecache-gerard
sudo chown -R gerard ~/.kde

how do you become superuser and what do you do as superuser - as best as I can tell Google'ing that could be the cause

I did both commands and nothing was returned.

Gérard

gerard@gt:~$ whoami && kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental

returns

gerard
kbuildsycoca4 running...
kbuildsycoca4(2245) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry Categories in "/usr/share/applications/im-switch.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(2245) parseLayoutNode: The menu spec file contains a Layout or DefaultLayout tag without the mandatory Merge tag inside. Please fix your file.
kbuildsycoca4(2245) parseLayoutNode: The menu spec file contains a Layout or DefaultLayout tag without the mandatory Merge tag inside. Please fix your file.

Gérard

google01103 wrote:how do you become superuser

I get into Konsole and type some commands that starts with sudo. Isn't that the way it should be done?

Gérard

GTalbot wrote:

google01103 wrote:how do you become superuser

I get into Konsole and type some commands that starts with sudo. Isn't that the way it should be done?

Gérard

yes if running command line (rm, cp, mv) but not if running gui apps, if you run gui apps (kate, dolphin, konsole) you should use kdesudo - if someone who uses Kubuntu can confirm this it would be appreciated as my distro uses su and kdesu so I'm going on what I found online

ps - you didn't say if your problem(s) were resolved

google01103 wrote:if you run gui apps (kate, dolphin, konsole) you should use kdesudo

So, from the command line, it would be this:

kdesudo kfmclient openProfile webbrowsing

?

or would it be

kdesudo konqueror

?

The problem of having the bookmarks toolbar displayed its bookmarks is still unresolved right now.

Gérard

At this point, I wish I could reinstall Konqueror 4.7.0 entirely, without any config setting, with default settings everywhere so that I could be sure that either there is a bug with the displaying of the bookmarks toolbar or it is something that I do that causes the bookmarks toolbar to be not viewable or empty.

Gérard

either kdesudo example should work, as I'm not a Kubuntu'er I'm explaining as best as I understand - see the Graphical sudo section here https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo were it states

You should never use normal sudo to start graphical applications as Root. You should use gksudo (kdesudo on Kubuntu) to run such programs. gksudo sets HOME=~root, and copies .Xauthority to a tmp directory. This prevents files in your home directory becoming owned by Root. (AFAICT, this is all that's special about the environment of the started process with gksudo vs. sudo).

GTalbot wrote:At this point, I wish I could reinstall Konqueror 4.7.0 entirely, without any config setting, with default settings everywhere so that I could be sure that either there is a bug with the displaying of the bookmarks toolbar or it is something that I do that causes the bookmarks toolbar to be not viewable or empty.

Gérard

how about removing/renaming/moving:
~/.kde/share/config/konq*
~/.kde/share/apps/konqeror
~/.kde/share/config/keditbookmarksrc
~/.kde/share/apps/keditbookmarks

note: the */apps/* are folders

google01103 wrote:how about removing/renaming/moving:
~/.kde/share/config/konq*
~/.kde/share/apps/konqeror
~/.kde/share/config/keditbookmarksrc
~/.kde/share/apps/keditbookmarks

note: the */apps/* are folders

[Edit: I finally removed _1.145 and the autosave folder. So, please ignore this post.]

Gérard

you might have hidden files? using "ls -la" would show hidden files/folders

it might be easier to use Dolphin to remove the folders and files, sending them to trash or deleting them. alt+. will toggle hidden files in Dolphin

you could use the "rm -rf" command which will recursively remove the folder and and files/folders below it but can be dangerous because confirmation is not asked

google01103 wrote:you might have hidden files? using "ls -la" would show hidden files/folders

it might be easier to use Dolphin to remove the folders and files, sending them to trash or deleting them. alt+. will toggle hidden files in Dolphin

you could use the "rm -rf" command which will recursively remove the folder and and files/folders below it but can be dangerous because confirmation is not asked

I used rm -r to remove the folder.

Now, I have successfully removed

~/.kde/share/config/konq*
~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror (a folder)
~/.kde/share/config/keditbookmarksrc
~/.kde/share/apps/keditbookmarks (a folder)

and I have uninstalled konqueror and all konqueror related plugins.

I will now install it back... working on it right now.

regards, Gérard

I removed

~/.kde/share/config/konq*
~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror (a folder)
~/.kde/share/config/keditbookmarksrc
~/.kde/share/apps/keditbookmarks (a folder)

then uninstalled konqueror and all konqueror related plugins.

Then I rebooted/restarted my system and then I noticed that

~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror (a folder)

has been recreated but it is empty. It only has the hidden .directory file.

I think this is okay.

I will now try to reinstall Konqueror and its related plugins. (fingers crossed here)

regards, Gérard

GTalbot wrote:I will now try to reinstall Konqueror and its related plugins. (fingers crossed here)

I reinstalled Konqueror (konqueror 4:4.7.0-0ubuntu1~natty~ppa2) with its default, basic nsplugins (konqueror-nsplugins 4:4.7.0-0ubuntu1~natty~ppa2), then opened Konqueror, then added manually a few bookmarks, then made a folder and assigned it to be shown, displayed in the bookmkarks toolbar and then did Configuration/Toolbars shown/Bookmarks toolbar checkbox checked and the bookmarks toolbars still did not display its content.

I also tried to move the bookmarks toolbar after unlocking toolbars... to no avail.

<sigh>The problem of displaying the bookmarks toolbar is still UNresolved right now.

I just have to give up on this. I'll try to file a bug report later or eventually ... as I think there must be a bug somewhere.

google01103, I want you to thank you for your time, your assistance, your careful advices and instrustions and for not letting me down alone with this problem during 13 days! (since august 9th!).

I have not given up on Konqueror!

best regards, Gérard Talbot