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List:       kde-user
Subject:    Re: Menu stuttering
From:       Mike Green <Mike.Green () saesolved ! com>
Date:       2000-12-30 21:27:22
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Thanks for the ideas. I've now tried removing .kderc and .kde directory from
/root. (I'm working as root until I'm finished with all of the setup tasks. As I
explain below, this is a fresh install.)  This does not change the menu
stuttering. [Interestingly, it does restore the red that was missing (see thread
"KDE 2.0.1 losing red") the first time I open the desktop. But if I log out and
back in again, the red is gone. RedHat is GreyHat ;-)]

With respect to your questions about distribution and RPMs:  I'm using RedHat
7.0. And I installed the KDE 2.0.1 RPMs from
http://ftp.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/kde/stable/2.0.1/distribution/rpm/RedHat/7.0/i386/.

This was essentially a clean install.  I had just had a hard drive failure and
had put in a new hard drive. (20 GB was the smallest the local stores had!) I
then installed RedHat 7.0 using the install everything option, since I felt as
if I had much more than enough drive space. Then I used RedHat Network to update
all of the packages.  That left me with an up-to-date system (at least to the
degree that RedHat Network is up-to-date), but with KDE 1.? (whatever it is that
RedHat packages with 7.0).  I then installed the RPMs for KDE 2.0.1 from
sourceforge noted above, since that was the link given for RedHat 7.0 at
http://www.kde.org/download.html.

I noted in another email (Re: KDE 2.0.1 losing red) that I wasn't able to figure
out for sure which of the packages I might need at some point and which I might
not. I tried to follow the guide at
http://www.kde.org/documentation/faq/install.html#AEN383 as much as possible.
And, after getting several this depends on that or this conflicts with that
messages, I went ahead and installed all of the packages using the
--replacefiles option.  I started by installing all of the libmng packages,
because when I tried to install the qt packages it said I needed them. Then I
installed all of the qt packages, followed by htdig, the kdesupport packages,
the kdelibs packages, and then everything else in alphabetical order. Could this
have any bearing on the problem?

TIA!

Mike

Eleknader wrote:

> Hi Mike!
>
> What's the distribution you're using, and did you install from distributors
> rpms
> or build from source tar?
>
> I had the same problem upgrading kde in RH 6.2. I solved it by removing
> .kderc and
> .kde directory in my homedir. This isn't good thing to do, if you want to
> keep your
> menu items and desktop settings. I would guess that this might be a distro
> problem.
> If you don't care missing original menu items, you can do as I did.
>
> I think that KDE 2 does not understand in your case right the old menu files
> because
> the format has changed. It usually does, but perhaps your distro has done
> some
> modifications in menus, and KDE 2 rpms (if your installing from them) are
> not built
> right, or you install from sources and they can't work right because of
> distro spesific
> stuff.
>
> Send more detail, and someone might know how to solve this without losing
> menus.
>
> Cheers, Eleknader
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kde-user-request@lists.netcentral.net
> [mailto:kde-user-request@lists.netcentral.net]On Behalf Of Mike Green
> Sent: 30. joulukuuta 2000 18:50
> To: KDE User List
> Subject: Menu stuttering
>
> I've just upgraded from KDE 1.? to KDE 2.0.1. I now have a lot of cases of
> menu stuttering --
> i.e. the same item appears twice in a menu.  In some cases both entries
> result in the same
> action (e.g. KJots appears twice in the Utilities menu, both go to KJots
> 0.4), in other cases
> they do not (e.g. ControlPanel->Information->X-Server, one yields a popup
> box, one a display
> in the other pane of the Control Panel). In addition I've found at least one
> case of something
> appearing in two different menus and resulting in two different actions:
> Screensaver appears
> in Control Panel->Desktop (which presents a badly stuttering list of only a
> few different
> screensaver choices) and Control Panel->Desktop->Look & Feel (which yields a
> nice long,
> non-stuttering list of screensaver choices).
>
> Is this a bug in KDE 2.0.1 or something I've done wrong in my installation?
> If the latter,
> how do I correct it?
>
> Cheers!
>
> Mike Green

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