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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: more on kppp in yesterday's snapshots; also kmail
From:       Harri Porten <porten () tu-harburg ! de>
Date:       1999-11-28 19:08:35
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David Faure wrote:
> 
> > david was right -- adding if_ppp.h did the trick in building kppp in the 1126
> > snapshots. interestingly, though, in that snapshot make in kdenetwork
> > completely ignores kppp. had to make and make install by hand.
> That's because kppp/configure.in.in disables kppp's compilation on systems
> that don't have if_ppp.h and other system includes, such as yours :-)

Correct. The test worked and prevented dep from compiling ;). I just
changed to #ifdef's to always look in /usr/include/linux on Linux. glibc
puts one into net as well put that seems to cause problems.

> 
> > interestingly, too, kppp doesn't show up on kmenu, though kppp-logview does.
> > odd.
> Did you look for "Internet Dialer" ?
> Yeah, user friendly names suck :-)

I don't know where this will end. I'm happy with "Internet Dialer",
"Text Editor" etc. but we'll run into problems if more alternatives pop
up for one task. I would prefer showing the real name first and the
description/general name as a tooltip only.

Harri.

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