xfce4.8 icons/menus/panel

[Warren Block]

On Fri, 4 Mar 2011, Olivier Duchateau wrote:

> In Xfce 4.8 management of panels is different regarding Xfce 4.6.x.
> You can use Perl script (xfconf-migration-4.6.pl, in
> /usr/local/lib/xfce4) find in sysutils/xfce4-utils (not tested). Or
> backup you ~/.config directory and run a new session in order to
> create a new ~/.config (you can delete xfce related stuff, it's
> safer).

I moved my old ~/.config elsewhere and tried; still no icons or menus. 
Also noticed that double-clicking the Home or File System desktop icons 
highlights them and then kind of... goes away.