[Digikam-users] Can't get Menubar back permanently - help!!!

[Chris G]

On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 02:49:03PM +0100, Ross McDonald wrote:
> On 19 Jun 2010, at 12:52, Chris G wrote:
> 
> > I was trying to get rid of some clutter in Digikam and clicked
> > Settings->Show Menubar which hides the Menubar.  I didn't actually
> > want to do this and now I can't get the Menubar back by default.
> >
> > I *can* hit CTRL/M to get the Menubar back but Digikam starts up with
> > no Menubar and I want it to start with the Menubar showing.  If I
> > click on Settings->Show Menubar with the Menubar showing (because I've
> > brought it back with CTRL/M) all that happens is the Menubar
> > disappears and the tick box by the option doesn't get set.
> >
> > Is this a bug? Or am I confused as to how to make it work?
> >
> > .... Digikam 1.0.0-beta5, on Ubuntu 9.10
> >
> Chris
> 
> I think upgrading to version 1.2.0 (or 1.3.0 depending on your KDE)  
> would probably solve your problems.
> 
> https://launchpad.net/~philip5/+ppa-packages
> 
> You can add them from this PPA
> 
That way lies madness!  :-)

The Digikam build there is built against KDE 4.4 but Ubuntu 9.10 only
has KDE 4.3, I'm not going to try and upgrade loads of libraries etc.
on my system to non-standard versions just to get rid of a small
Digikam bug.

-- 
Chris Green