Thank you. BUT saying it 100 times wouldn't fix this. Someone wrote me to
suggest running kbuildsycoca...as root and as user. I did. The result was
that root AND user no longer had a functioning kcontrol. Neither had
kcontrol so I cannot compare /root/.kde/share/applnk or app/ with any user.
Whatever is lacking is lacking globally after this kbuildsycoca run. I also
tried the copy of
/usr/share/applnk to .kde/share/applnk...etc. Still no kcontrol.
Perhaps you will be relieved to know that I got fed up with whatever the
problem was (since no one seems to know SPECIFICALLY what file contains the
information that kcontrol looks for with regards to X-KDE, etc, AND I had
time to WASTE). I downloaded the whole mess AGAIN. I uninstalled all of KDE
and then reinstalled ALL of it again. Now, kcontrol works. Nice, but I
still want to know SPECIFICALLY what file provides the information to
kcontrol so when I run into this (it is assured that upon upgrading to the
next kde2.1 version that it will break again since it has with every kde 2.1
iinstall so far...even though it is upgrading from one kde 2.1 to the next) I
can fix it without all the ridiculous downloading, uninstalling,
reintstalling, deleting .kderc, .kde/, and restarting. It IS ridiculous.
I don't want to simply follow the formula, if it works next time since it
didn't this time, of deleting my .kde/share/applnk and copying the
/usr/share/applnk every time kde 2.1 gets a tweaking and I want to use it. I
would like to simply be able to leave everything alone and cop ONE file from
/usr/share/applnk to my home version.
I really do not mean to be an ass but SHIT! If something isn't broken, don't
"fix" it by breaking it with EVERY release. Settle on the format for config
files (or whatever) and leave it. You do not get any gain by changing the
name or organization of the contents of a config file (or whatever is
involved in this repetitive problem). I am frustrated by the pointless
changing for the sake of changing things that don't require changing.
On Friday 02 February 2001 13:01, you wrote:
> On Friday 02 February 2001 19:29, you wrote:
>
> I really do not know how many time I have to tell you that your problem is
> in applnk. If you have Kcontrol as root with all entries listed in kcontrol
> and do not have the same as user that means that you messed up with
> application links.
>
> 1. Check in /usr/share/applnk if this directory is readable for users (see
> if permissions are OK).
>
> 2. Copy directory to /.kde/share and restart kde.
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Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.
