[ATrpms-users] KDE 3.5 and Menus

[Rex Dieter]

Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 11:00:10AM -0500, George Galt wrote:
> 
>>Axel:
>>
>>I recently did an upgrade of my system (FC4), and the most recent version of
>>KDE (kdelibs-3.5.0-4.0.fc4.kde, kdebase-3.5.0-1.2.fc4.kde) seems to have
>>torched some of my KDE menus -- removing the "System Preferences" menu (I
>>think that was what it was called, but it is not the "System Tools" menu),
>>references to the KDE Control Center, the Home directory, etc.
>>
>>Also, Konqueror now seems to be unable to change file and directory
>>permissions (it gives me an error message with the helpful text of "error:
>>"), even though I can change the permissions from the command line (note,
>>this happens even when running konqueror as "root" so it is not an issue of
>>permission).  Konqueror's output is along the lines of it being unable to
>>create a widget -- I'm not home right now, but I can get the exact message
>>later today.
>>
>>I realize that this is kind of an amorphous description at this point, but
>>do you know where I should start trying to narrow the problem?
>>
>>I can probably rebuild the menus, so that is merely an annoyance, but I
>>would rather not have to constantly rebuild menus after upgrading -- and I
>>would think that an upgrade shouldn't remove existing menu entries.
>>However, the issue with Konqueror seems to be more troubling -- pointing to
>>some form of instability in KDE 3.5.  Any thoughts?
> 
> 
> I'm copying Rex Dieter, who is the packager of the above packages and
> *the* Fedora KDE expert. :)
> 
> Just a shot in the dark: Are you properly using kde-redhat? W/o any
> preferences/weighing/protectbase etc.? What depsolver are you using?

This happened to a lot of folks upgrading who had previusloy 
modified/customized their menus via kmenuedit.  The only solution we've 
found (so far) is to undo the previous mods:
1.  remove/rename ~/.config
2.  run (in konsole):
$ kbuildsycoca

-- Rex