Re: [newbie] Menus damaged when KDE removed

2002-07-30 Thread Miark
Well the real lesson there is don't use Red Carpet unliess you really like to do everything with rpm --nodeps. The price you pay for such smoothness in the update is excessive. No kidding--sounds like a horrible mess waiting to happen. Right now what I see is that the easy way to

Re: [newbie] Menus damaged when KDE removed

2002-07-29 Thread civileme
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

Re: [newbie] Menus damaged when KDE removed

2002-07-29 Thread Derek Jennings
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

Re: [newbie] Menus damaged when KDE removed

2002-07-29 Thread civileme
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

Re: [newbie] Menus damaged when KDE removed

2002-07-29 Thread Mad Scientist
On Monday 29 July 2002 01:55 am, civileme wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] Menus damaged when KDE removed

2002-07-29 Thread civileme
Miark wrote: I have the opposite problem. I installed Gnome2 directly from Ximian, and having updating software using Red Carpet, some of my menu items have disappeared. Most notably, XMMS and gFTP. Those programs exist, work, and are easily invoked from the commandline, but they've

Re: [newbie] Menus damaged when KDE removed

2002-07-29 Thread Mad Scientist
On Monday 29 July 2002 01:12 pm, civileme wrote: Right now what I see is that the easy way to analyze this is likely going to be using a script The following is a very simple-minded one which should do some magic [snip] Thanks for the script. Is there a latency from when it removes the

Re: [newbie] Menus damaged when KDE removed

2002-07-28 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 27 July 2002 09:40 pm, you wrote: El sáb, 27-07-2002 a las 19:57, Dennis Myers escribió: On Saturday 27 July 2002 08:32 pm, you wrote: I installed Gnome and removed KDE, leaving alone my various other windows managers (Blackbox, IceWM, etc.). Fine, but now the start menus

Re: [newbie] Menus damaged when KDE removed

2002-07-28 Thread Mad Scientist
On Sunday 28 July 2002 08:24 am, Dennis Myers wrote: I installed Gnome and removed KDE, leaving alone my various other windows managers (Blackbox, IceWM, etc.). Fine, but now the start menus in my various windows managers are missing many items. All items are visible in menudrake,

Re: [newbie] Menus damaged when KDE removed

2002-07-28 Thread civileme
Mad Scientist wrote: On Sunday 28 July 2002 08:24 am, Dennis Myers wrote: I installed Gnome and removed KDE, leaving alone my various other windows managers (Blackbox, IceWM, etc.). Fine, but now the start menus in my various windows managers are missing many items. All items are visible in

Re: [newbie] Menus damaged when KDE removed

2002-07-28 Thread Mad Scientist
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

[newbie] Menus damaged when KDE removed

2002-07-27 Thread Warren Post
I installed Gnome and removed KDE, leaving alone my various other windows managers (Blackbox, IceWM, etc.). Fine, but now the start menus in my various windows managers are missing many items. All items are visible in menudrake, but they do not appear in the start menus. I've tried editing

Re: [newbie] Menus damaged when KDE removed

2002-07-27 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 27 July 2002 08:32 pm, you wrote: I installed Gnome and removed KDE, leaving alone my various other windows managers (Blackbox, IceWM, etc.). Fine, but now the start menus in my various windows managers are missing many items. All items are visible in menudrake, but they do not

Re: [newbie] Menus damaged when KDE removed

2002-07-27 Thread Warren Post
El sáb, 27-07-2002 a las 19:57, Dennis Myers escribió: On Saturday 27 July 2002 08:32 pm, you wrote: I installed Gnome and removed KDE, leaving alone my various other windows managers (Blackbox, IceWM, etc.). Fine, but now the start menus in my various windows managers are missing many