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Guy Harrison posted <200602162008.28546.swampdog-ml6@××××××××.com>, |
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excerpted below, on Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:08:28 +0000: |
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>> Unfortunately, the answer to where one finds the menu layout for KDE |
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>> isn't as simple as it used to be [due to KDE's new compliance with the |
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>> fredesktop.org standard, plus various backward compatibility hacks]. |
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>> [B]ackward compatibility with its own older layout, which would have |
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>> been quite familiar to anyone used to the MSWormOS start menu, as it |
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>> kept the menu in the same sort of tree, located at /usr/share/applnk, I |
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>> believe it was. |
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> Caveat I've not read anything on freedesktop.org yet but nevertheless |
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> the links within the older layout $HOME/.kde/share/applink appear to |
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> correspond with the apps which remained - nano & xedit here. The only |
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> other editors in the "Editors" k-menu section were the missing KDE apps, |
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> kwrite,kate,kedit. |
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OK, that confirms that my memory of the old format and location was |
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correct, and that backward compatibility does work. It also indicates |
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that the backward compatibility stuff remained intact, and it was the new |
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desktop.org compliant stuff that disappeared. |
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> Just after I posted yesterday, my "home icon" reappeared in the kicker, |
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> complete with its keyboard shortcut. I am now fully restored! <G> |
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Fully restored =8^), but still in a very disturbing situation, as you |
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don't know what caused the problem nor how to fix it if it happens again! |
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=8^( |
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Equally if not more disturbing to folks like me, who like to trace |
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down such things and find the explanation, so they understand what their |
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computer is doing, that information is missing ATM! I don't like a |
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computer doing stuff unexpected an unexplained, particularly when it |
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appears to be non-deterministic as well! That disturbs the very stability |
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of my known universe, from my perspective, and I find it very difficult to |
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sleep or carry on an otherwise normal life until I resolve the situation. |
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It's not unusual for me to spend 30 hour marathons without sleep and with |
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only the minimum necessary food, water, breaks, and interruptions for |
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work, tracing such issues. Only when I have it resolved is all right in |
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my little universe again, and I can catch up on food and sleep and the |
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like. =8^) Obviously, I identify with your distress, then, at not having |
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an explanation for this, and find it disturbing here, too, not only for |
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you, but as the thought occurs that that if it happened to you, it could |
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easily happen to me, too. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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