Nothing on desktop, making changes doesn't help

What is the output of:

sudo updatedb; locate knetattach; lsb_release -a; uname -a

Thanks

/usr/lib/kde4/libexec/knetattach
/usr/share/app-install/desktop/kde-runtime:kde4__knetattach.desktop
/usr/share/app-install/desktop/plasma-desktop:org.kde.knetattach.desktop
/usr/share/app-install/icons/knetattach.svgz
/usr/share/applications/kde4/knetattach.desktop
/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/knetattach
/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/knetattach/common
/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/knetattach/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/knetattach/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/knetattach/screenshot.png
/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/knetattach/screenshot1.png
/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/knetattach/screenshot2.png
/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/knetattach/screenshot3.png
/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/knetattach/screenshot4.png
/usr/share/icons/breeze/apps/48/knetattach.svg
/usr/share/icons/breeze-dark/apps/48/knetattach.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/knetattach.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/knetattach.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/knetattach.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/knetattach.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/knetattach.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/knetattach.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/knetattach.svgz
/usr/share/icons/oxygen/base/16x16/apps/knetattach.png
/usr/share/icons/oxygen/base/22x22/apps/knetattach.png
/usr/share/icons/oxygen/base/256x256/apps/knetattach.png
/usr/share/icons/oxygen/base/32x32/apps/knetattach.png
/usr/share/icons/oxygen/base/48x48/apps/knetattach.png
LSB Version: core-9.20170808ubuntu1-noarch:printing-9.20170808ubuntu1-noarch:security-9.20170808ubuntu1-noarch
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS
Release: 18.04
Codename: bionic
Linux linda-Aspire-E1-531 4.15.0-46-generic #49-Ubuntu SMP Wed Feb 6 09:33:07 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

really the problem is, nothing is on the desktop, you can't click on the desktop and get a menu to appear and none of the icons are there, I've tried changing which icons are there but there are no changes

If you run:

/usr/lib/kde4/libexec/knetattach

In a terminal, does the application run OK? If so then we can make this ok

it seems to run ok

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/usr/lib/kde4/libexec/knetattach runs ok but it is still not in the PATH

OK then run:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/knetattach /usr/bin/knetattach

Then try the icon to launch it

Try the following:

Open a terminal windows and issue the command

sudo gedit /use/share/applications/kde4/knetattach.desktop

This will ask for your password as conformation for an administrative action and then open an editor with the knetattach deskptop file loaded.
Scroll down to the end of the file and the go up 10 lines.
Change the line
Exec=knetattach
into
Exec=/usr/lib/kde4/libexec/knetattach
save the file and close the editor.

number 7 did not put an icon on the desktop

If you want a desktop icon.

ln -s /use/share/applications/kde4/knetattach.desktop ~/Desktop/knetattach.desktop

Done

If you want a desktop icon.

ln -s /use/share/applications/kde4/knetattach.desktop ~/Desktop/knetattach.desktop

Done

as stated before this does not put an icon on the desktop. There are no icons on the desktop and there is more than one way to get an icon there and none of these ways work!

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