On 7/21/06, Leonardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On the 'not so happy' side I think I have found only minor
things; the biggest point is I don't have a 'consistent' kde
menu:
I think you will find that Gentoo follows the $upstream releases much
more closely than other distributions...
some applications with GUI are missing from the menu
...so if some GUI application doesn't have a .desktop file provided by
$upstream, Gentoo probably will not have it.
However it is perfectly reasonable to file bugs in bugs.gentoo.org
about this, and request a .desktop file be added. It is even better
if you can make a .desktop file yourself, and attach it to the bug
report.
some are present twice
Did you preserve your ~/.kde directories from another system? If so,
you may have .desktop files there that account for the duplicate
entries.
the categorization itself is somehow dis-organized, with some entries showing an
'other' child menu, listing applications that could fit also in the parent menu
(things like kde->graphic->other).
Not sure what you mean by "other". I have "More Applications"
sub-menus, but no "Other" menus. But assuming this is what you mean,
this is controlled by the X-KDE-More category in the .desktop file.
Again, this is a case of Gentoo following $upstream more closely.
If you really don't like this, you can:
find /usr/kde/3.5/share/applications -name "*.desktop" -exec \
sed -i -e "s/X-KDE-More;//g" {} \;
But bewarned, gentoo will then refuse to remove the .desktop files
when you go to a new KDE version, since their mtime and md5sum will no
longer match what gentoo thinks they should be. So you may have to do
a bit of manual cleanup from time-to-time. Or you can use quickpkg to
make binary tarballs of the KDE packages, and then re-install from
those, which will fix the mtime/md5 sums in the package database to
match what you changed.
-Richard
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