Konqueror will not run from menu in FC6
William M. Quarles
quarlewm at jmu.edu
Mon Nov 6 18:47:15 UTC 2006
Steven P. Ulrick wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Nov 2006 02:45:26 -0500
> "William M. Quarles" <quarlewm at jmu.edu> wrote:
>
>
>>>On Friday 27 October 2006 21:13, Arch Willingham wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Nope..no crashes. Also, I did a brand new install of FC6 and it
>>>>does it there too. I tried all of these but still it will not load
>>>
>>>>from the menu.
>>
>>I'm having the same problem with a fully updated FC5, so I am
>>guessing that there is a bug in the latest RPMs. Someone should do a
>>bug report... Probably you since you first discovered this, Arch.
>>
>>Peace,
>>William
>
>
> Hello, William
> Since I compile KDE from source, the "redhat-menus" RPM always hoses my
> KMenu. So I run "rpm -e --nodeps redhat-menus" and my KMenu always
> goes back to the way that it is supposed to be.
> Also, I sometimes have to re-install redhat-menus when I run "yum
> update" Sometimes one of the updates depends on redhat-menus. Then,
> after "yum update" has completed, I immediately remove "redhat-menus"
> as described above.
> By this point, you are wondering, what does this have to do with not
> being able to start Konqueror from the Menu? I have discovered that
> with "redhat-menus" installed, not only can't I start Konqueror from
> the Menu, but I cannot start Konqueror from the Icon on my Kicker.
> (Actually, I have to go all the way to the Internet sub-menu to even
> find Konqueror. "redhat-menus" seems to do a real number on my
> KMenu...) But, as soon as I uninstall "redhat-menus", my KMenu is
> repopulated, the "Home" icon reappears in KMenu, and I can now start
> Konqueror from the Icon that I have on Kicker.
>
> Check out these screenshots and see if they look like anything you've
> seen:
>
> With "redhat-menus" installed:
> http://www.afolkey2.net/Projects/kmenu-1038am.jpg
>
> With "redhat-menus" removed:
> http://www.afolkey2.net/Projects/kmenu-1039am.jpg
>
> Have a Great Day,
> Steven P. Ulrick
I use Gnome so I couldn't necessarily tell you right now. Anyway, this
still doesn't change the fact that this is a bug that should be fixed.
If you seem to be saying that this existed in FC5 before the most recent
update, why hasn't anybody noticed it up until now?
Have a Great Day, Too,
William
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