Questions after 3.5 Upgrade on Fedora

[Dave McDonald]

Philip Rodrigues wrote:
> Dave McDonald wrote:
>
>   
>> I upgraded my KDE from the distributed Fedora Core 4 version to 3.5 and
>> I am having some confusion about setting settings, menus, etc. I'm not
>> sure if this is related to Fedora sharing menu items between KDE and
>> Gnome, but I can't find answers to the following questions:
>>
>> 1. When I try to launch the menu editor from the context menu on the "K"
>> icon, nothing happens - I can start the application from the terminal
>> command line.
>>     
>
> Bizarre. Can you start it from K menu -> Settings -> Menu Editor?
>   
When I tried this, I didn't have any Settings menu......

Thinking that this may have been a symptom of something worse, I went 
back and checked the installed RPM's that YUM had put in - I have 
multiple versions of some kde modules (like the kdelibs, kdebase, 
kdeutils) ending with .FC4 or .FC4.kde. Rather than trying to puzzle 
this out, I plan to remove everything and re-install with one consistent 
set of code. I will also check the admin guide and follow your 
suggestions below about the .local and .config directories.

One last thing, the kicker doc for "Special Buttons" is here ...

http://docs.kde.org/development/en/kdebase/kicker/basics.html#adding-special-icons


Thanks for your help.

Dave
http://docs.kde.org/development/en/kdebase/kicker/basics.html#adding-special-icons



>   
>> 2. The User's Guide discusses adding "Special Buttons" to the Kicker by
>> using the context menu, but my context menu doesn't have "Special
>> Buttons" as an option.
>>     
>
> They're now listed under the "Add applet to panel" dialog. Could you point
> me to the exact place in the User Guide that has the confusing/incorrect
> information, so it can be corrected.
>
>   
>> 3. When I started up (and when I regenerated the menus) the KDE
>> configuration tools (like menu editor, configuration manager, help
>> center, etc) were  not on the menus  and  had to be added manually.  I'm
>> not sure how many kde components are actually missing. Is there a way to
>> reset the  menus to an  initial "out of the box"  state? Even when  I
>> manually recycled the  menus, they only went back to  pre-3.5-upgrade
>> level not  back  to a  completely new  (and fully populated) state.
>>     
>
> Rename ~/.local and ~/.config . Your distro might use some other directories
> too, I suppose - check the XDG_DATA_HOME and XDG_DATA_DIRS environment
> variables. (I think that's what they're called. Check the user guide,
> section "KDE for Admins")
>
>   
>> 4. I can't find in the kicker configuration screens any way to disable
>> the large (1" high) tooltips that come up for the kicker icons. I can
>> disable the desktop tooltips but not the kicker ones.
>>     
>
> Control center -> desktop -> panels -> appearance -> enable icon mouseover
> effects.
>
>   
>> I'm beginning to to suspect that something went wrong during the upgrade
>> - it that is so, is there a procedure to eliminate any pre-3.5
>> definitions and start clean?
>>     
>
> The best way to check whether this is the case is to create a new user and
> start KDE with that user. If everything works with that user, it's a config
> problem; if the same problem occurs, it's an installation or KDE
> problem/bug.
>
> Regards
> Philip
>   

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