At 11:36 PM 6/17/00, you wrote:
>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
Ah yes features. A M$ spin name for a bug :-)
