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Re: [LUG] Where'd the menu go?

 

On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 16:37:39 +0100
Neil Williams wrote:

> On Sunday 21 August 2005 4:16 pm, Grant Sewell wrote:
> > Hi all.
> >
> > Not quite sure what's happened here, and it's by no means an urgent
> > matter...  after doing an "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" I seem to
> > have lost all entries in my KDE menu, including the "Debian" menu entry. 
> 
> This is a temporary problem in unstable - I've filed a bug and the feedback 
> was to either wait for kdelibs to be fixed or downgrade your installation of 
> kdelibs to the previous version. I haven't downgraded, I'm just staying with 
> the lack of menu.
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=256862
> (see end of the report)
> 
> Life in Debian unstable is a cascade of oops and checking existing bug 
> reports. In future, any problems like this check Debian Bugs, file a bug if 
> it doesn't exist yet using reportbug and then ask on the list.
> ;-)
> 
> > This in itself isn't a problem since I know the name of all the
> > applications I use regularly
> 
> ditto
> 
> > but it has also, for some reason, also decided to take some of the 
> > application buttons of my "launch bar".
> 
> Those can be put back (initially as non-KDE applications) but the menu itself 
> won't re-appear even if you use kmenuedit until kdelibs is fixed.

Ok, gotcha.  Thanks Neil.  Is there anywhere where I could have found out that the 
problem is with kdelibs?  Personally I wouldn't have thought at looking at that 
package.

Cheers.

Grant.
-- 
Unix:  Some say the learning curve is steep, but you only have to climb it once.

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