Menu missing

[David L. Smith]

Thank you for your response, Robert. I would be happy to come back on good 
terms with kde when it completely comes back to me. <sob>

Try this: in root. move your mouse down the icons on the left of the menu 
editor and 'accidently' click the left button just long enough to drag any of 
the menu items down into the next menu item (which should be a folder if you 
want to follow along with this). Then move it back to its rightful place. The 
kdemenu editor has no save (nor reset) for this. This is understandable if it 
works like it should, btw, but on my system, at least, that item becomes 
invisible to the other users that are not root and, as pointed out earlier, 
even disappears on root's menu when he is in another gui.

On the other hand, it is still seeable in the root's kde menu editor though 
not in any non-root kde menu editor.

I did a few other things on purpose, like putting the kde hex editor in a 
place more easily found by the programmers. It disappeared from everyones 
menu. Now, of course, it is easily run by going to the run command, but 
somehow that detracts from the main purpose of having a gui.

What is really weird is that the kde control center just shows a blank instead 
of the tree.

I also moved something on purpose, did a search, and found the two files that 
were changed. I can find the missing items in there - several times - but am 
waiting for someone to tell me a simple method of fixing this instead of 
trying to figure out how the things were set up. I wish they used the plain 
text method of keeping the data around. One caution - messing with this is 
when I accidently moved the Preference menu item.

Can anyone else dup this? Of course you might have the near mutiny that I had 
if this is actually a bug. Or is there something simple that I can do on my 
part that I am missing.

blessings,
David L. Smith

On Saturday 26 October 2002 04:00 am, kde-request at mail.kde.org wrote:
> From: Robert Kratky <kratky at rob.cz>
> hi,
> provided you decide to come to good terms with kde again, you might
> consider following:
>
> - where did you move it? it should be visible even if not in the
> 'proper' place.
> - then you moved it back and after saving your changes you weren't able
> to see it...?
>
> doesn't seem like 'it' disappeared -- especially if you were using the
> menu editor. looks to me like you accidentally deleted it. however, even
> if it did disappear, kcontrol still should be working...
>
> the preferences submenu is like any other - it contains shortcuts to
> stuff that is to be run. in this case it's the kcmshell command followed
> by an action like: 'kcmshell nic' shows info about installed nic's, etc.
>
> robert
>
> David L. Smith wrote:
> >I recently installed Red Hat Linux with KDE on my system here.
> >
> >I am not currently using KDE nor are the other users on the system for a
> >strange reason. As root, I was changing the menu. Anything that was
> > changed failed to show up on user menus. For example, I accidently
> > clicked on Preferences and moved it. I immediately moved it back to its
> > proper place. However, no one can now see Preferences on their menu, and
> > therefore, no one wants to use KDE. Even root, if not in KDE, cannot see
> > Preferences, though the unaltered parts of the menu are still there.
> >
> >I know root is dangerous, but this is a bit strong.
> >
> >Is there a simple command that will re-establish the menu?
> >
> >I am (no longer) using KDE 3.0.0-10
> >
> >blessings,
> >David L. Smtih
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