[ATrpms-users] KDE 3.5 and Menus

[George Galt]

Rex:

Worked like a charm.  Thanks.

George

On 1/12/06, George Galt <george.galt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Rex and Axel:
>
> Thanks for the response.
>
> I'm using smart without any special preferences etc for kde-redhat. I'll
> try Rex's suggestion and see what happens.  And yes, I had customized a few
> menus . . . oops ;-)
>
> George
>
> On 1/11/06, Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu> wrote:
> >
> > 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
> >
>
>
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