[kde-linux] kcontrol -> panels -> appearance tab missing!

[Jason Mancini]

HA!  I found it.  I don't know if this is a KDE problem or not.  As far as I 
can tell,
the problem is that both:

/usr/lib/menu/kdebase-fileappearance
/usr/lib/menu/kdebase-kicker_config_appearance

have title="Appearance".  Removing the former file, or changing the title 
string in
the former file lets kicker_config_appearance.desktop be created.  Probably
file-system specific about the order that the files are returned while 
traversing
the /usr/lib/menu folder...

So, is this a KDE problem, an install-menu bug, or a Mandriva-specific bug?

Thanks!
-Jason


----Original Message Follows----
From: "Jason Mancini" <jayrusman at hotmail.com>

Okay, I've narrowed this down to a bug in "install-menu" I think.

Doing this:

update-menus -v --stdout > ~/menus.txt
# edit ~/menus.txt and remove everything but kicker_config_appearance
/etc/menu-methods/xdg-desktop-entry-spec-apps < ~/menus.txt
/etc/menu-methods/simplified/simplified-xdg-desktop-entry-spec-apps <
~/menus.txt

causes the missing kicker_config_appearance.desktop files to be generated!

So the question is, why aren't they generated when part of the larger list?
Given
that the "menu" package isn't KDE specific, now I'm on the wrong list...

-Jason


----Original Message Follows----
From: "Jason Mancini" <jayrusman at hotmail.com>

I upgraded two Mandriva computers, and *one* was left without an
"Appearance" tab on the Panels configuration.  Running the
command "kcmshell kicker_config" shows an error message like
"the module could not be found and thus was not loaded".
It's driving me nuts!  I've tracked it down to a file named
kicker_config_appearance.desktop that seems to be missing
in /var/lib/menu-xdg and ~/.local/... but I can't figure out how
it is generated from /usr/lib/menu/kdebase-kicker_config_appearance.
Google shows very few others have had this problem for several
months now, with no solutions listed.

What is the magic?!  The two computers have the *exact* same
rpm versions installed!

-Jason