First, I am reporting exactly what happens regardless of logging out and back in, so don't get all worked up or snappish. I am reporting an objective fact, not an opinion - while asking why have the redundant functions. I do not read every message in the list, there are too many and most do not in any way apply to anything I need to deal with. I don't use and have not installed Gnome so I don't know about cross-functionality. There is KDE and blackbox on my system. Period. I have ended up using kmenuedit because the menudrake menu editor hasn't worked. Again, using lyx as an example. I have lyx installed. If I open up the menu editor (menudrake) it appears there in the office submenu. That's nice except it does not appear in any user's (nor root's) office menu. I tried deleting the entry and re-entering it from scratch. It seems to go well, accepting my inputs without complaint (as user or root). I do the update and viola...it doesn't show up in the kmenu office submenu inspite of being there in menudrake's depiction. I try logging out of kde and logging back in. Same thing. I try rebooting, same thing. The ONLY way I finally got a lyx icon to actually appear (and work) in the kmenu was to use kmenuedit. It worked immediately. This, to me, would appear to indicate a problem. This occured in several situations: after upgrading from one stable release to the next of Mandrake, after complete reinstall from scratch of Mandrake 8.0. After upgrade to (essentially) Cooker. In no case has the menudrake app worked properly for me. On Thursday 16 August 2001 03:48 pm, you wrote: > On Wednesday 15 August 2001 10:55, Praedor Tempus wrote: > > I am running KDE 2.2 on my Mandrake 8.0/Cooker system. I find that I > > cannot use the default menu editor to do anything useful with my menus if > > I get to it via the panel by either right-clicking the panel and > > selecting the panel menu -> menu editor or if I do it via the kmenu > > button. I get the menudrake app that doesn't do anything useful. By [...] > > Any ideas? Why would the default KDE menu editor be a > > broken/nonfunctioning app instead of the VERY nice and working kmenuedit? > > The name "menudrake" indicates that it is something specific to mandrake > > rather than something that KDE wants. Perhaps menudrake works in Gnome > > or some other environment but I have not found it to work for quite a > > while, for several iterations of KDE, within the KDE environment. > > > > No error messages ever. It just does't do anything useful, apparently. > > > > praedor > > You have been on the expert list for a while and somehow you missed that we > have integrated menus and that Kmenuedit doesn't work? > > Use menudrake and only menudrake. Use it from the mandrake control center. > Do yourself a favor and use menudrake to take KMenuedit OFF your menu. > Debian, Connective and We all use this integrated menu system so BB users > can run GNOME and KDE apps and can switch to E and see the SAME menu,and > get it again in Windowmaker. > > Now as far as menudrake doing nothing useful--the one off the menu edits > for your user ONLY, while the one on control center can do that or can do > system-wide or for a specific windowmanager (some things run only in KDE, > for example) or edit root's menu as well. Once you have edited the menu, > it does not appear in the menu box until you do what you have to do for a > StarOffice installation: that is, restart the windowmanager by logging out > and back in. > > menudrake is quite useful, and I am sorry to report that your complaint was > poorly researched. > > Civileme
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