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Greg Shikhman schreef: |
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> Hi, |
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> After installing gentoo and gnome on my current system, I don't get |
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> programs added to my program files after emerging them (ex: |
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> firefox-bin does not enter the menu after emerging it, I have to do |
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> it manually). Could anyone list any reasons why this could happen? |
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Does the item still not appear after you have in one way or another |
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restarted the gnome-panel (thereby re-reading the menu)? |
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I.e. , 1) killing gnome-panel and letting it restart; 2) logging out and |
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back in; 3) rebooting. |
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It fairly often happens that one expects the program to automatically |
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appear immediately after install (and much of the time it does), but it |
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does not appear to occur, because of the way the program is added to the |
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menu (or something), and so the item is there, but the menu is not |
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updated 'on-the-fly' to actually show it (until the menu in memory is |
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re-read due to a restart of the panel). |
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I see this a lot with -bin programs, for some reason (Loki stuff, OO.o, |
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doom3 and the like), they just don't show up till I log off and on |
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again-- but since I usually don't log off and on again, or reboot for |
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that matter, I think that there's something wrong. |
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Second possibility is that the programs you're installing are KDE or |
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other WM programs that are not interoperable with the GNOME menu. This |
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is obviously not the case for something like Firefox, but you could |
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install.... oh, KPat, 750 times and it's never going to appear in the |
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GNOME menu (though K3b will). |
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Third possibility is that you're using an older version of GNOME with |
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"even more broken menu functionality" than the current version (2.10.x) |
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has? GNOME, like KDE is migrating to the freedesktop.org standard, but |
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until such migration is complete, we will still encounter bumps like |
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this. GNOME 2.10 is the first major effort to integrate these standards, |
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and it's not a completely smooth transition (especially since many |
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application install routines are not necessarily compiant with the |
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standard either, sometimes because the install routine was created |
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before there *was* a standard to comply with). That probably explains |
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why I see this most with -bin files. |
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Anyway, hope this helps... I think the problem may not be as great as it |
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appears, but please test and see. |
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Holly |
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