All:
I installed Opera and a menu item appeared in the Networking > W W W menu, which initially worked with the Gnome desktop. After some days it the menu item caused a "launching" button to appear in the taskbar (panel?) but this then vanished without the Opera browser appearing.
I included OpenOffice.org in the initial installation a couple of weeks ago but had not used it until a few days ago. It too showed a "launching" item in the taskbar but after a few minutes it disappeared.
Why are app items in menus failing to launch apps? They launch okay from a terminal window.
Should menus work the same in both KDE and Gnome? For example, if I install an RPM package under Gnome which adds a menu item, will that menu item still be present in KDE? I ask becaause I use both KDE and Gnome at whim.
Also, I downloaded pfaEdit, a font designer and editor like FontoGrapher. It was a *.tar.gz file, not an RPM file so did not install into menus.
Somebody told me there was a MenuDrake but I can't see (a) how to edit existing menu items or (b) how to add new menu items. It is partly a matter of terminology, as the Linux conventions are different from Windows and Mac OS terms.
Regards, Hedley
Setup: Mandrake Linux 9.1, Dell GR260 w. Dell monitor, Pentium 4 2.4 GHz, dual boot with Windows XP Professional and Linux partitions
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