On Sunday 28 July 2002 02:21 pm, you wrote:
> If you look at /usr/lib/menu you will see all sorts of files that have
> to do with menu. In those files is a needs clause.
>
> If it needs kde then it disappears when kde is removed. Those files are
> written directly into the mdk rpm spec files and are cleaned when things
> are removed.
>
> If you remove KDE surely you did not expect anything depending on KDE to
> stick around. Konqueror does have an embedded version, true, but that
> version is not included with the distro.
>
> Now menu files can be in the system menu or in the user menu (which are
> specific to each user) and they can appear for a specific desktop
> 'Needs kde' 'needs gnome' 'needs blackbox' are sometimes clauses....
>
> There is considerable room for expansion in the menu structure. The
> "what to do?" is an example. It is also easily possible to add another
> clause to each menu item which defines a level so that a user could rate
> his own level and if for example choosing newbie, see only the simplest
> of apps. This is easily done.
>
> What you will notice about our menus is that, to the extent possible,
> they stay the same across desktops. KDE and GNOME-specific items that
> just need the widget set for each of those do propagate across desktops,
> and are on some of them submenued as "KDE apps" or "GNOME Apps".
>
> In other words the system did what it was told which wasn't what you
> expected.
This is all very helpful information and I'm starting to get a better
understanding of how these menus work. But I still can't solve this one.
Although the original poster indicated he had removed KDE, I'm not sure if
that's the problem. At least in my case, I never removed KDE. Also, it's not
just the KDE-related menus that are gone. All menus are gone. And they are
gone from all window managers. I basically have from "Run Command" and down
still there but everything above is gone. The original poster stated
"Everything has been lost from my menus except the freshly installed Gnome
apps." which sounds to me to be the same problem.
When I go "Original menu" style, I do get all those menus, but they do not
relate to the apps I have installed. I can get the "What to do ?" menus to
show, but not the "All applications". And they are the ones that really fit
best with what I actually have installed.
They *do* appear in menudrake. According to menudrake, everything looks
perfect. They just don't show in the real menus.
Still confused,
-Mad
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