Re: [newbie] Modifying the KDE menu

2005-02-01 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Lanman wrote: Margot wrote: Did you remember to run update-menus -v as root, after installing or uninstalling software and before running menudrake? Or, update-menus -n if you're not interested in seeing the output, but as you're having problems the -v option would probably be more useful.

Re: [newbie] Modifying the KDE menu

2005-02-01 Thread Lanman
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Sorry for taking so long to respond - I kind of forgot about this one. One way you can stop an item from apreaing in the menu is to delete the file for that item in /usr/lib/menu. But when you upgrande the package, it will probably be back. You could try creating an

Re: [newbie] Modifying the KDE menu

2005-01-26 Thread Lanman
Margot wrote: Did you remember to run update-menus -v as root, after installing or uninstalling software and before running menudrake? Or, update-menus -n if you're not interested in seeing the output, but as you're having problems the -v option would probably be more useful. Also, in

Re: [newbie] Modifying the KDE menu

2005-01-26 Thread Lanman
Hmmm, Possibly another clue for general consideration; Whenever you add a new user to a Linux powered system, a home folder is created for the new user, at which point, the contents of /etc/skel are copies to the that user's home folder. But that's as far as this process goes. Until the new

Re: [newbie] Modifying the KDE menu

2005-01-26 Thread Lanman
Hmmm, Looks Like I may have found what I'm looking for. It would seem that Mandrake essentially uses a dynamic menu system, which makes a lot of sense when you think about it. Other ways of getting your menus updated would probably be clunky and cumbersome at best. In order to make life

Re: [newbie] Modifying the KDE menu

2005-01-26 Thread Lanman
Lanman wrote: Hmmm, Looks Like I may have found what I'm looking for. It would seem that Mandrake essentially uses a dynamic menu system, which makes a lot of sense when you think about it. Other ways of getting your menus updated would probably be clunky and cumbersome at best. In order to

[newbie] Modifying the KDE menu

2005-01-25 Thread Lanman
Hi Gang. I've been trying to find out how to permanently modify the KDE3.2 and 3.3 menus and I'm not getting anywhere. For instance, if I add/delete entries in the KDE menu using menudrake, (selecting the System Menu option), those changes are saved, however, as soon as I re-open menudrake, it

Re: [newbie] Modifying the KDE menu

2005-01-25 Thread Erylon Hines
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 02:28 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: | -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- | Hash: SHA1 | | On Tuesday 25 Jan 2005 14:57, Lanman wrote: | Hi Gang. I've been trying to find out how to permanently modify the | KDE3.2 and 3.3 menus and I'm not getting anywhere. | | When things

Re: [newbie] Modifying the KDE menu

2005-01-25 Thread Margot
Lanman wrote: Hi Gang. I've been trying to find out how to permanently modify the KDE3.2 and 3.3 menus and I'm not getting anywhere. For instance, if I add/delete entries in the KDE menu using menudrake, (selecting the System Menu option), those changes are saved, however, as soon as I re-open