no menu's in kde 3.2

[James Richard Tyrer]

Shane Shields wrote:
> On Saturday 07 February 2004 10:43 pm, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> 
>>KDE-3.2 uses the new FreeDesktop XDG virtual directory menu system.
> 
> 
> I know this :).
> 
> 
>>If it doesn't work, I would suspect that you are missing one of the
>>dependencies.
> 
> 
> It seems that way to me too. But what?
> 
> 
>>Did you install the the GNOME XML and XSLT packages?
> 
> 
> Yes they were installed and for good measure I upgraded them to:-
> 
> libxml-1.8.17
> libxml-2-2.5.11
> libxslt-1.0.33
> 
> 
>>Do you have stuff in these directories:
>>
>>	/etc/xdg/
>>	$KDEDIR/share/applications
>>	$KDEDIR/share/desktop-directories
> 
> 
> Yes.
> 
> 
>>and does the Menu Editor show the menu?
> 
> 
> Right clicking on the KMenu and selecting the menu editor does nothing. 
> Running the binary directly shows no menu's.
> 
> I have been trying to fix this since November last year :( If you look at my 
> previous post you can see the rpm spec files that I use. Compiling using the 
> rpm spec's but installing manually everything works but when I compile to 
> rpm's and install using rpm the menu's don't show. I have no idea what's 
> different, something is but I can't find it. The compile and make install 
> commands are exactly the same in both cases. 

I sure hate it when that happens.  Sorry, but making RPMs isn't in my area 
of expertise.  If it is an RPM issue, there are lists and newsgroups for 
RPM that might be able to offer more help with this.

--
JRT
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