[Kde-kiosk] K-Menu, XDG menus and Kiosk woes

Daniel Villavicencio danielvm at cantv.net
Tue Apr 4 19:55:32 CEST 2006


Hi everyone, i have the same problem with KDE 3.5, but i´m newbie to Linux,
i´m using Ubuntu but i don´t know what to do with the 
"kubuntu_02_kmenu.diff"
file, can anyone help me with this please...

Thanks Everyone..
Daniel


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Torsten Rahn" <torsten.rahn at credativ.de>
To: <kde-core-devel at kde.org>
Cc: <kde-kiosk at kde.org>; "Jonathan Riddell" <jriddell at ubuntu.com>; 
<klingens at kde.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 10:06 AM
Subject: Re: [Kde-kiosk] K-Menu, XDG menus and Kiosk woes


> Am Donnerstag, 19. Januar 2006 12:25 schrieb Jonathan Riddell:
>
>> Here's the patch:
>>
>> http://muse.19inch.net/~jr/tmp/kubuntu_02_kmenu.diff
>
> This patch will just help for _NEW_ KDE Profiles created with the 
> _patched_
> KDE-Kiosktool or for "handcrafted" profiles based on 
> kde-applications.menu.
>
> It won't help if you created Kiosk Profiles using KDE 3.3 and/or the 
> Kiosktool
> w/o the patch. So if you update from (<=) KDE 3.3 to KDE 3.4 or 3.5 you 
> need
> to rename the applications.menu to kde-applications.menu beforehand and 
> only
> then you can work on your profiles using the patched Kiosktool!
>
> I personally find it a shame that distributions in this case deliberately
> violate standards which were accepted by KDE as well as gnome already.
> Even worse: they do it without mentioning.
> They just put KDE into a bad light by doing so (because critical stuff 
> won't
> work afterwards on enterprise level).
>
>> The issue is that Kubuntu and Debian move the menu file to
>> kde-applications.menu.  I don't know what other distros do (some just
>> share the menu between Gnome and KDE of course) but I doubt the same
>> patch will help them.
>
> -- 
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards,
>
> Torsten Rahn
>
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