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schome1

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Registered: 2004-02-15

Posts: 61

New packages in KDE - no menu icons

I am new to arch linux and I'm wondering if what I'm about to explain is common, or if there is a fix.  When I installed mozilla firefox and thunderbird with the command

pacman -S mozilla-firefox

and

pacman -S mozilla-thunderbird

the packages were installed successfully, and I am able to run both applications.  However, I had to manually add them to the KDE menus.  Are all packages for KDE installed without menus?  Is there something I should have done to get the menus to be installed automatically?

mico

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From: Slovenia

Registered: 2004-02-08

Posts: 247

Re: New packages in KDE - no menu icons

When you install KDE applications the menu entries should be created. Some other applications (e.g. OpenOffice.org) might also create menu entries, but most (mozilla) don't - you just have to create them. If there are more users on your system you could then copy or move those menu entries from ~/.kde/share/applnk/ to /opt/kde/share/applnk/ so all other users will also have those apps in kde menu.

alakazam

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Registered: 2004-06-30

Posts: 13

Re: New packages in KDE - no menu icons

*bump*

Does this mean KDE only adds packages to the menu when you reinstall KDE?  SO the packages themselves can't do it?

dp

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From: Zürich, Switzerland

Registered: 2003-05-27

Posts: 3,378

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Re: New packages in KDE - no menu icons

*bump*

Does this mean KDE only adds packages to the menu when you reinstall KDE?  SO the packages themselves can't do it?

NO!!! and no, they cannot (for now) ... BUT: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … kappfinder

:-)

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punkrockguy318

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From: New Jersey

Registered: 2004-02-15

Posts: 711

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Re: New packages in KDE - no menu icons

The devels have discussed having a central menuing system (like debian's) a while back, but nothing has really come of it...

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contrasutra

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From: New Jersey

Registered: 2003-07-26

Posts: 507

Re: New packages in KDE - no menu icons

The devels have discussed having a central menuing system (like debian's) a while back, but nothing has really come of it...

Xentac worked for a very long time trying to port Debian's, but there's some dpkg specific code in it, so it was put off.

I just wanted to make sure people knew that Xentac actually worked on this, it wasn't just talk.

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punkrockguy318

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From: New Jersey

Registered: 2004-02-15

Posts: 711

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Re: New packages in KDE - no menu icons

The devels have discussed having a central menuing system (like debian's) a while back, but nothing has really come of it...

Xentac worked for a very long time trying to port Debian's, but there's some dpkg specific code in it, so it was put off.

I just wanted to make sure people knew that Xentac actually worked on this, it wasn't just talk.

Oh, I had no idea.  I didn't see or hear of any code, so I thought the idea was vetoed.  Good luck on future work Xentac!

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Xentac

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From: Victoria, BC

Registered: 2003-01-17

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Re: New packages in KDE - no menu icons

The devels have discussed having a central menuing system (like debian's) a while back, but nothing has really come of it...

Xentac worked for a very long time trying to port Debian's, but there's some dpkg specific code in it, so it was put off.

I just wanted to make sure people knew that Xentac actually worked on this, it wasn't just talk.

Oh, I had no idea.  I didn't see or hear of any code, so I thought the idea was vetoed.  Good luck on future work Xentac!

Amazingly enough, I usually do follow through with the stuff that I suggest

Thing is that no one really helps me, so I only share it when it's in a usable state.

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alakazam

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Registered: 2004-06-30

Posts: 13

Re: New packages in KDE - no menu icons

Wow, interesting  8) Good luck xentac!