On Monday 29 Jul 2002 5:49 am, Mad Scientist wrote: > 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
I saw something similar when I installed Crossover plugin A menu entry put in by Crossover was broken and it stopped all the others appearing. Tracking down the offending item and removing it fixed the problem. It was a real pain trying to get to the bottom of it. derek
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