Re: "No Text!" in kde menu bar and duplicated items
On October 14, 2004 02:44 am, Achim Bohnet wrote:
> On Thursday 14 October 2004 10:22, Massimiliano Mirabello wrote:
> Let's find the really problem, before we declare it solved ;)
>
> > A message sent in debian-kde list (subject was:"Missing Text Items...
> > Tracked Down.) helped me.
> > Problem is caused by a missing config file in all users home (this is not
> > created with user and some programs don't look for deafault shared
> > ui_standards.rc)
> >
> > Greetings,
> > Massimiliano
>
> On Sunday 10 October 2004 00:55, Michael Peddemors wrote:
> > Just an FYI for anyone upgrading from 3.1.4 to 3.2.xx series, the gotcha
> > in the woody debs, is that the new packages in some cases (kedit,kpdf
> > etc) only
> What version of do you use?
> dpkg -l *kdelibs\* kpdf kedit | grep ^[^up]
ii kdelibs 3.2.2-0.credat KDE core libraries metapackage
ii kdelibs-bin 3.2.2-0.credat KDE core binaries
ii kdelibs-data 3.2.2-0.credat KDE core shared data
ii kdelibs4 3.2.2-0.credat KDE core libraries
ii kpdf 3.2.2-0.credat PDF viewer for KDE
ii kedit 3.2.2-0.credat KDE text editor
> What your output of:
>
> $ strace kpdf 2>&1 | grep ui_standards
It was via strace that I found that it didn't hit
the /etc/kde3/ui/ui_standards.rc file..
> > Possibly new users will get this file created, I did not check yet.
>
> No.
Ouch.. Then the packages need fixing..
> > Without that file in the users home directories, the app specific text
> > items will only show. This also causes duplicate items somehow, but was
> > resolved also by adding this file.
>
> that's a workaround that hides the real problem ;)
I know.. That's why I mentioned it shoudl go to the dvelopers lists.
> > Really, the programs should be looking for the presence of a default
> > standards file, if the users one is missing.
>
> Right. This normally is the standard kde behaviour.
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