http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5566
------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-12-09 17:36 ------- There are only two desktops of consideration in the Linux community, KDE and Gnome. Others are used only by a very few people. Software vendors (confim this yourself with metrowerks and OpenOffice installers) will create menus in both KDE and Gnome. I am not suggesting supporting one user of some obscure desktop. Of course I know how to set the menu to the default KDE. As long as attitudes exist of being able to tweak things by hand, I am sorry to say that the Linux desktop is doomed for failure. In any case, here we are fairly experienced in software and even we find it frustrating to use menu editors and the like. Too used to Windows and Mac machines I guess. -- Configure bugmail: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. ------- Reminder: ------- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: RESOLVED creation_date: description: Mandrake has used a menu links location (/usr/share/applnk-mdk) that is different from the default KDE menus (/usr/share/applnk). This is a major issue and could relegate desktop Linux to the wastebasket if not standardized upon. No Linux distribution should expect third party developers to create different versions of their installers to take care of all the distributions out there. The menu location should be standardized and the KDE default location can be used by all Linux distributions. If not, third party software installers will not create links in the KDE "start" menu. I verified this with CodeWarrior 6 and there were no links created in the Mandrake menus. Links were however, correctly created in the default KDE menu path. Installing OpenOffice after downloading from the OpenOffice.org site also does the same. I would strongly suggest using the same location as KDE does for menus. Mandrake can add items and folders to that standard location and build the applnk-mdk menus there.
