Re: missing Debian menus in KDE 3.2
Thanks, I had seen these and made the changes reommended in #237260. I
think that I resoplved the problem by pulling over the missing
/usr/bin/kdm-update-menu and
/usr/bin/kde-update-menu
C.S.
On Sat, 13 Mar 2004, Josh Metzler wrote:
> On Saturday 13 March 2004 12:26 pm, Carlo U. Segre wrote:
> > Hello All:
> >
> > I recently upgraded to KDE 32. and initially it went fine except for the
> > missing -dpi 100 in the /etc/kde3/kdm/Xservers file. On March 12, a
> > routine upgrade mostly broke the menuing system and the toolbar.
> >
> > Most of the Debian menus are missing now along with all of my
> > customizations. A lot of menu items appear in the "lost+found" entry.
> > I have tried removing my .kde directory and rebuilding it but this does
> > not cause the menus to reappear. Thre appears to be no place in the KDE
> > Control Center to turn the Debian menus on and off.
> >
> > Running update-menus give errors due to already reported problems in
> > /etc/menu-methods/freedesktop-desktop-entry-spec-apps
> > /etc/menu-methods/freedesktop-desktop-entry-spec-dirs
> >
> > /usr/bin/kdm-update-menu and
> > /etc/kde3/debian/kdm-update-menu.sh
> > are missing form the kdm package and
> >
> > /usr/bin/kde-update-menu and
> > /etc/kde3/debian/kde-update-menu.sh
> > are missing form the kicker package. I get these from comparing with a
> > sid system that has not yet been upgraded to KDE 3.2 so this may not be
> > an accurate represenation of what has changed over the last upgrade.
> >
> > Any suggestions? Please cc to me as I am not subscribed to this list.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Carlo
>
> The upgrade of "menu" from 2.1.9-5 to 2.1.10-1 either introduced a bug or
> triggered a bug in the kde update-menu scripts (I think the latter).
> Downgrading menu to 2.1.9-5 restored my Debian menus.
>
> See bugs #237820 and #237260 for more info.
>
> Josh Metzler
>
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