Re: K-Menu, XDG menus and Kiosk woes
Torsten Rahn <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.kde.devel.core,gmane.comp.kde.kiosk |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
The problem is that since KDE 3.4 many of those distributions _renamed_ the respective applications.menu file and included patches so that KDE parses for /etc/xdg/menus/kde-applications.menu _instead_ of "applications.menu" and the like. The motivation is that these distributions want to offer seperate menus for KDE and GNOME by this workaround. Effectively this renders any update to KDE 3.4 or any self-compiled kiosktool-packages (that don't take the patched kdelibs into account) useless. For any debian and kubuntu based distribution it helps as a workaround to either - copy the applications.menu file created by the kiosktool in the respective profile over to kde-applications.menu / copy the applications from an existing kiosk profile over. - or compile your sources (kdelibs IIRC) without using the respective patch that changes "applications.menu" to something else. I only got aware of the "secret" behind this bug a few weeks ago (and would enjoy to give a mighty kick into the **** of some packagers). -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards, Torsten Rahn -- Dipl.-Phys. Torsten Rahn, credativ GmbH Karl-Heinz-Beckurts-Str. 13, 52428 Jülich, Germany Tel.: +49 (2461) 6907-91 Fax: +49 (2461) 6907-11 Mobil: +49 (160) 7452624 Email: [email protected]