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Re: [Cooker] Missing System menu entries under KDE4

by Steve Morris-5 :: Rate this Message:

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Luc Menut wrote:

> Nicolas Lécureuil a écrit :
> ...
>>>> this is a mandriva issue so not related to kde4 upstream. This is a
>>>> minor
>>>> issue for cooker but will be fixed for final release.
>>> Sorry Nicolas, this was one of a whole swag of issues I raised when
>>> KDE4
>>> was first introduced, and was told that I should raise the issues
>>> upstream because Mandriva was running a vanilla KDE4, hence the issues
>>> were not Mandrivas.
>>
>> yes but you have to think by yourself, if this is a bug of 'Mandriva
>> control center' YES this is a mandriva bug    this seems
>> soooooooooooo logical
>>
>
> Sorry Nicolas, I think you have mis understood the problem here. The
> problem is not only with MCC here, but MCC shows the problem.
> I previously explained on bugzilla
> (https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=41985#c1), why drakconf AND
> all applications configured to appear in the System tab of kickoff
> menu, don't appear in the classical menu
> (http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=809648).
> It's a good design for kickoff, but with bads effects for simplelauncher.
> This feature should be used only for kickoff and not for
> simplelauncher, or simplelauncher should have a menu entry for System
> Application. We have the choice between these 2 alternatives, and
> perhaps others.
>
> The bugs or wrong features in simplelauncher concern mainly Mandriva,
> because Mandriva currently uses by default the classical menu (it
> seems that most of others distribs have made the choice to use
> kickoff, the default menu in kde 4).
> I don't say that the classical menu is a bad choice, I don't like
> kickoff!!
>
> just my 2 cents.
>
> best regards,
> Luc
>
My issue is these entries don't show up in classical menu or kickoff.
This is also not the first time this has occurred, it occurred when KDE4
was first released to Cooker.

regards,
Steve


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