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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Menu edit question
From:       Simon Edwards <simon () simonzone ! com>
Date:       2002-06-21 16:38:59
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> I use Mandrake and when I edit the menu's I get
> drakmenu. Since I've upgraded to KDE 3.0 If I
> edit the menus I can no longer log into the account
> It gets stuck on "Starting Services". I have to delete
> the .kde and .kde3 directories to recover the account.
> I take it KDE provides some menu editing? How
> can I evoke it and bypass the mandrake Editor.

Run drakemenu, and I think there is an option on a menu somewhere, where you 
can select what kind of menu system you want to use.

> Is the KDE editor so bad mandrake felt they had to
> replace it?

No, Mandrake are using the Debian Menu system. The idea behind Debian menu is 
to have a menu structure somewhere and then kind of 'compile' that into the 
config files needed by Gnome, KDE, <insert random desktop here> etc. So that 
changes to your menu magically appear in KDE and every other desktop 
environment... 

I find it kind of annoying myself... bad interface etc. Actually I wish 
Mandrake would just write some decent KDE admin tools instead of the half 
baked GTK ones they have now...

cheers,
-- 
Simon Edwards             | Guarddog Firewall
simon@simonzone.com       | http://www.simonzone.com/software/
Nijmegen, The Netherlands | "ZooTV? You made the right choice."


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