I pressed some keys inadvertently, and the toolbar has disappeared, and the menu bar.
I read the manual and control-M got the menubar back, but I cannot find a way to put the toolbar back up.

By toolbar, I mean the one with the next and previous buttons, the symbol of a house, etc on it.

Does anyone know how to restore the toolbar in gwenview 2.8.5 using KDE 4.8.5?

Thanks!

try renaming ~/.kde/share/apps/gwenviewui.rc or it might be ~/.kde4/share/apps/gwenviewui.rc depending on your distro

Thanks for the reply.

My daughter accidentally found out how to get the toolbar back, though there is probably a better way to do it.

She opposite-clicked all over the place, and you get the kde menu most everywhere, but if you opposite click on the unused portion of the menu bar., you get a single item menu that is show menubar with a check box beside it.
clicking that box makes the toolbar come back!

There is probably a more proper way to do that, maybe a keystroke combination, but I could not find it.

It still comes up without the toolbar, so I will try renaming the gwenviewui.rc and see if it comes up with the toolbar on by default.

Thanks again!

Right clicking on an empty section of toolbar, and checking the appropriate toolbars you wish to use is the correct approach usually - and should cause the toolbar to be retained on future starts.

If removing the gwenviewui.rc file doesn't correct the issue, then try removing "gwenviewrc" from ~/.kde4/share/config/

I faced this problem and I used the shortcut to enable my toolbar.
The shortcut is Ctrl+M