Joel Stanley wrote:
>
> Is it just me, or is the standard installation of KDE for MDK 7.1 a tad
> broken? I installed 7.1 on a friend's computer who is pretty new to Linux
> and I'm in the midst of trying to show him how to add icons to the KDE
> panel...but the damn kmenuedit program doesn't work if I run it from the
> command line (it runs, but there's no way to add menu items), and for some
> reason KDE thinks that it is not installed when invoked from the KDE menu
> (it literally pops up a dialog box saying that it's not installed :)
>
> In order to add an item to the panel, the program or whatever has to have
> a listing in the application menu as far as I can tell, and without the
> menu editor, I had to drop into a shell and set up a .kdelnk file in
> /usr/share/applnks/...etc...far too much work.
>
> Any ideas? I checked on the webpage and didn't see anything about KDE
> issues and was MandrakeUpdate didn't find anything kde-related.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> -j
>
> --
> Joel R. Stanley * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * #include <std_disclaimer.h>
> "You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike."
Umm
Well, the menu system was _Changed_ in 7.1 and to handle it you
need to go to the menu and select documentation and read what the
user manual and the reference manual say about it... You need to
throw new menu items into a subdirectory of /etc to make sure
they aren't wiped by an update--and the graphic edit get sets up
items that will be erased on each boot. You may notice that the
menu looks the _same_ in all WMs now.
This is a feature<g>. And it will be more fun in the next
distro, I wager, because it is confusing many, and the features
added will likely be enhanced to provide superior functionality.
For now, we users just have to learn something new.
Civileme
