problems with fresh gnome-2.8.1 installation

[Fernan Aguero]

+----[ Jeremy Messenger <mezz7 at cox.net> (12.Nov.2004 18:28):
|
| >Excuse me but ... what is marcuscom? a machine you test
| >gnome on? I mean not the building of gnome but actually
| >using it?
| 
| Will following up in another email...

It's OK I already got some info on this.

| >| >- the applications menu is laaarge. For some reason, it
| >| >  included all my KDE apps in the main menu and not in the
| >| >  more specific KDE submenu. Also for no apparent reason,
| >| >  three KDE apps are in their corresponding menus (ark,
| >| >  konqueror and kmix).
| >|
| >| Reinstall gnomevfs2 with WITHOUT_KDE_MENUS define. As you said that it  
| >is
| >| large, can you take the screenshot of it? You can send it to me in  
| >private
| >| if you don't have any web space to put. I worked on KDE menu to make it
| >| looks nicer than default, but I haven't touch it ever since for pretty
| >| long time.
| >|
| >| Cheers,
| >| Mezz
| >|
| >+----]
| >
| >The screenshot of the visible part of the menu is here
| >http://genoma.unsam.edu.ar/~fernan/freebsd/gnome-menu.gif
| >
| >As for the KDE apps being there, now I see where they come
| >from! I was intrigued that having renamed my .kde files the
| >entries in the menu were still there.
| 
| So, you mean all of your KDE menu stuff are in ~/.kde where gnomevfs2 took  
| from? 

No. I just thought that gnome was reading my ~/.kde to get
my kde entries for the menu ... but I think I was wrong.

| Just want to make sure before I do all the work again with KDE by  
| install it, and test and hack. I only work with KDE menu with gnomevfs2 by  
| read in ${LOCALBASE}/share/applnk/ long time ago, so if all your KDE menu  
| are from ~/.kde then I don't think I can do that much.

Now I see, yes I do have a populated
${LOCALBASE}/share/applnk/, is this what gnomevfs reads to
fill the menu?

If so, I don't get why it's putting all entries together,
since in applnk they are correctly put into categories.

| If you have the very up to date of KDE and gnomevfs2 read in  
| ${LOCALBASE}/share/applnk/, then you can send me tarball of  
| ${LOCALBASE}/share/applnk (or I can download it) and I can try to work  
| with it to make it looks nicer again..

I do have a tarball of applnk if you want it
http://genoma.unsam.edu.ar/~fernan/freebsd/applnk.tar.gz

but it's not very up to date:
[fernan at pi] pkg_version -v -s kde
kde-3.1.4                           <   needs updating (port has 3.3.1)
kdeaddons-3.1.4                     <   needs updating (port has 3.3.1)
kdeadmin-3.1.4                      <   needs updating (port has 3.3.1)
kdeartwork-3.1.4                    <   needs updating (port has 3.3.1)
kdebase-3.1.4                       <   needs updating (port has 3.3.1)
kdeedu-3.1.4                        <   needs updating (port has 3.3.1)
kdegames-3.1.4                      <   needs updating (port has 3.3.1)
kdegraphics-3.1.4                   <   needs updating (port has 3.3.1)
kdelibs-3.1.4                       <   needs updating (port has 3.3.1)
kdemultimedia-3.1.4                 <   needs updating (port has 3.3.1)
kdenetwork-3.1.4                    <   needs updating (port has 3.3.1)
kdepim-3.1.4                        <   needs updating (port has 3.3.1_1)
kdesdk-3.1.4                        <   needs updating (port has 3.3.1)
kdetoys-3.1.4                       <   needs updating (port has 3.3.1)
kdeutils-3.1.4                      <   needs updating (port has 3.3.1)
kdevelop-2.1.5                      <   needs updating (port has 3.1.1)	

| >However, is it necessary to reinstall gnomevfs2?
| 
| Aww, rebuild/reinstall gnomevfs2 doesn't take that long. ;-)

I was not worried by the time it would take. I was just
thinking that if I can tweak a file or two, then re-building
a port was not that necessary.

| >From reading the Makefile I think that perhaps I can just
| >remove the 'KDE.directory' file from
| >${PREFIX}/share/gnome/vfolders. Would this do it?
| 
| You can remove that 'KDE.directory', then remove all  
| '<MergeDir>/usr/local/share/applnk/*/</MergeDir>' and KDE/QT lines in  
| ${X11BASE}/etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/vfolders/applications-all-users.vfolder-info  
| ..
| 
| Cheers,
| Mezz
|
+----]

OK, that's what I wanted to hear :)

Regards,

Fernan

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