Derek Jennings wrote: >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 > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Thanks for the heads-up. I haven't seen that one before but it works very nicely. I can reproduce by intentionally malforming a menu entry in /usr/lib/menu
Shoot. looks like we need a syntax checker for thoser entries with an interactive (this is bad, delete it?)... civileme
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