Re: Screwed up toolbars and menus
On Saturday 07 of August 2004 04:56, Matej Cepl wrote: > I am a happy user of KDE 3.2.2 on Debian/woody (KDE is from > download.kde.org), but when installing that (and removing nightmare of > screwed up packages -- conflicting OpenOffice and LyX, uselessly new X, > etc.), there are still two problems which persists: missing Help and > screwed up menus and toolbars. For example see screenshot of KPatience After many searches over KDE, I hit the answer by reading this link I found in this conference (just to be sure, that people who hit the same problem I did, will find the solution): http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2004/01/msg00299.html However, I have lost help again, whatever I look the help for the answer is only (both to "help:kmail" or to the now regained item in Help menu) "Požadovaný dokument s nápovědou nebyl nalezen. Ujistěte se, že jste nainstalovali dokumentaci." (in English it would be "The requested help file could not be found. Check that you have installed the documentation."). Does anybody know the solution for this? Best, Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 If in desperation, read the documentation! -- Brian D. Ripley, on R-help list pgpNxHF9hZ9UI.pgp Description: signature
Re: Screwed up toolbars and menus
On Saturday 07 of August 2004 04:56, Matej Cepl wrote: > And ALL (without an exception) help items in Help menus (if they are > present at all, which is not the case many times -- e.g., in kmail the > menu Help has only one item "Introduction to KMail" but it is there > twice) lead to the same message in KDE Help Center "The requested help > file could not be found. Check that you have installed the > documentation." Of course, the documentation is installed (but reading > docbook files in less is not much pleasant experience -- I would hope for > better :-), but there does not seem to be a way how to persuade KDE to > display it better. Do you remember this ancient post of mine? I have in meantime upgraded to KDE 3.2.2 (from download.kde.org on Debian/woody) just to find out, that it is still alive and kicking -- no Helps for me. Then again from pure feeling of dispair (you couldn't imagine how difficult it is to live without help documents when you've got used to them) I googled again for the answer and found this page -- http://www.webservertalk.com/archive235-2004-5-232451.html. Then I tried to make a symlink from all subdirectories in /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML (fortunately, I have just two of them there) to /usr/share/doc/HTML and suddenly MY HELP IS BACK!!! Thanks God! However, nasty questions still remain: a) How is it possible that apparently no other user of Debian/woody KDE 3.2.[12] happen to stumble upon this already? b) I have in my /etc/kde3/system.kdeglobals (see attached) dir_html=/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML Why KDE ignores it? c) I compiled a program from source (krusader, if anybody is interested, Debian/woody KDE 3.2.2 package is available at http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/progs/debian/) and that one as the only one KDE application does not have Help (trying "help:krusader" in Command Prompt, because its menus are screwed us menus of all other KDE applications; but that's another story). Thanks in advance for any reply, Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 I am a Roman Catholic, so that I do not expect `history' to be anything but a `long defeat' -- though it contains (and in a legend may contain more clearly and movingly) some samples or glimpses of final victory. -- J.R.R. Tolkien [Directories] dir_config=/etc/kde3 dir_tmp=/tmp dir_socket=/tmp dir_exe=/usr/bin dir_lib=/usr/lib dir_cgi=/usr/lib/cgi-bin dir_module=/usr/lib/kde3 dir_apps=/usr/share/applnk dir_data=/usr/share/apps dir_html=/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML dir_icon=/usr/share/icons dir_locale=/usr/share/locale dir_mime=/usr/share/mimelnk dir_services=/usr/share/services dir_servicetypes=/usr/share/servicetypes dir_sound=/usr/share/sounds dir_templates=/usr/share/templates dir_wallpaper=/usr/share/wallpapers [General] TerminalApplication=x-terminal-emulator pgpF37mzyCyin.pgp Description: signature
Re: Screwed up toolbars and menus
On Saturday 07 August 2004 04:07 pm, Matej Cepl wrote: > On Saturday 07 of August 2004 15:16, Björn Krombholz wrote: > > I noticed a similiar bevaviour some month ago. Maybe > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=216463&archive=yes > > will help you fixing the issue. > > Thanks for trying (seriously!), but no joy here -- all described > directories were in their place. Interesting. >The global kderc-file `/etc/kd3/system.globals' is empty what causes >problems in GUI-Layout of some KDE applications. I don't have a system.globals or anything remotely of the sort. I tried a dozen permutations. I'm not having anything like the described behavior. maybe if this system.globals thing does exist on your box, scooting it out of the way temporarily might make good things happen. -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/
Re: Screwed up toolbars and menus
On Saturday 07 of August 2004 15:16, Björn Krombholz wrote: > I noticed a similiar bevaviour some month ago. Maybe > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=216463&archive=yes > will help you fixing the issue. Thanks for trying (seriously!), but no joy here -- all described directories were in their place. Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder. -- Frederick Bastiat
Re: Screwed up toolbars and menus
On Sat, 7 Aug 2004 10:56:17 +0200, Matej Cepl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am a happy user of KDE 3.2.2 on Debian/woody (KDE is from > download.kde.org), but when installing that (and removing nightmare of > screwed up packages -- conflicting OpenOffice and LyX, uselessly new X, > etc.), there are still two problems which persists: missing Help and > screwed up menus and toolbars. For example see screenshot of KPatience > (according to my wife, the most important program in KDE :-) on > http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/tmp/kpat.png. Or most KDE programs have at > least some menu double or other missing (konqueror has two Bookmarks menu, > kdvi has sometimes twice item Open in File menu, without open DVI there is > none, Help menu is before Settings, etc. etc.). Hi Matej, I noticed a similiar bevaviour some month ago. Maybe http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=216463&archive=yes will help you fixing the issue. Bjoern
Re: Screwed up toolbars and menus
On Saturday 07 August 2004 10:56, Matej Cepl wrote: [snip] > Did anybody encountered such problems and is there any hope with resolving > it? Encountered the same problems, especially annoying is that Konqueror's main toolbar contains each action twice. No luck in resovling it so far. Cheers, Kevin
Screwed up toolbars and menus
Hi, I am a happy user of KDE 3.2.2 on Debian/woody (KDE is from download.kde.org), but when installing that (and removing nightmare of screwed up packages -- conflicting OpenOffice and LyX, uselessly new X, etc.), there are still two problems which persists: missing Help and screwed up menus and toolbars. For example see screenshot of KPatience (according to my wife, the most important program in KDE :-) on http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/tmp/kpat.png. Or most KDE programs have at least some menu double or other missing (konqueror has two Bookmarks menu, kdvi has sometimes twice item Open in File menu, without open DVI there is none, Help menu is before Settings, etc. etc.). And ALL (without an exception) help items in Help menus (if they are present at all, which is not the case many times -- e.g., in kmail the menu Help has only one item "Introduction to KMail" but it is there twice) lead to the same message in KDE Help Center "The requested help file could not be found. Check that you have installed the documentation." Of course, the documentation is installed (but reading docbook files in less is not much pleasant experience -- I would hope for better :-), but there does not seem to be a way how to persuade KDE to display it better. I have tried to search through for /usr/share for some mishandled links, but to no avail, I tried even the solution of hopeless KDE user -- moving ~/.kde to somewhere else with hope that KDE will rebuilt the directory again and better, but no joy even in that (the same problems persisted). Did anybody encountered such problems and is there any hope with resolving it? Thanks for any reply, Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. Therefore, a man without a woman is like a bicycle without a fish.
