App shortcuts missing after upgrade to KDE 3.5.2 on FC4

Hirszu · 04-29-2006, 03:03 PM

I just upgraded to KDE 3.5.2 and I noticed that in my K Menu are missing many shortcuts, for example 90% of games, even the builtin KDE games, as in this thread. But I upgraded all of my KDE packages. I've done three console commands to check it:

# rpm -qa | grep kde
# rpm -qa | grep --regexp="^kde.*3\.5\.1" ('cause I upgraded earlier to KDE 3.5.1, there was the same problem)
# rpm -qa | grep --regexp="^kde.*3\.4"

The second one outputted me a list of old packages from 3.5.1, so I installed the new versions. After doing it, the first command gave me an output:

Code:

dbus-qt-0.33-3.2.fc4.kde
qt-devel-3.3.5-13.1.fc4.kde
kdemultimedia-3.5.2-3.fc4.kde
kdegames-3.5.2-1.0.fc4.kde
kdelibs-devel-3.5.2-1.2.fc4.kde
kdenetwork-3.5.2-1.0.fc4.kde
kdeaddons-xmms-3.5.2-1.0.fc4.kde
k3b-0.12.15-0.1.fc4.kde
kdepim-devel-3.5.2-1.1.fc4.kde
lockdev-1.0.1-7
lockdev-devel-1.0.1-7
boost-1.33.0-3.0.fc4.kde
kdeutils-3.5.2-1.0.fc4.kde
kdemultimedia-extras-nonfree-3.5.2-2.fc4.kde
kdegraphics-devel-3.5.2-1.0.fc4.kde
amarok-visualisation-1.3.8-1.1.fc4.kde
arts-1.5.2-1.2.fc4.kde
arts-devel-1.5.2-1.2.fc4.kde
kdelibs-menus-3.5.2-1.2.fc4.kde
kdepim-3.5.2-1.1.fc4.kde
kdesdk-devel-3.5.2-1.0.fc4.kde
kdegraphics-3.5.2-1.0.fc4.kde
kde-i18n-Polish-3.5.2-1.2
kdetoys-3.5.2-1.fc4
thinkeramik-3.2.1-2.fc4.kde
crystal-0.9.5-1.fc4.kde
qt-3.3.5-13.1.fc4.kde
kdemultimedia-extras-3.5.2-1.fc4.kde
kdeutils-devel-3.5.2-1.0.fc4.kde
kdeartwork-3.5.2-1.0.fc4.kde
kdebindings-3.5.2-1.0.fc4.kde
kdeadmin-3.5.2-1.0.fc4.kde
crystalgl-0.8.1-1.fc4.kde
qt-MySQL-3.3.5-11.4.fc4.kde
redhat-artwork-0.124-2.0.fc4.kde
kdebase-3.5.2-1.6.fc4.kde
kdeaddons-3.5.2-1.0.fc4.kde
kdenetwork-devel-3.5.2-1.0.fc4.kde
kdebindings-dcopperl-3.5.2-1.0.fc4.kde
boost-devel-1.33.0-3.0.fc4.kde
amarok-1.3.8-1.1.fc4.kde
kdelibs-3.5.2-1.2.fc4.kde
kdebase-devel-3.5.2-1.6.fc4.kde
kdewebdev-3.5.2-1.0.fc4.kde
kdesdk-3.5.2-1.0.fc4.kde

So, what am I doing wrong?

Brian1 · 04-29-2006, 03:24 PM

Seen this on a friends before. My quick fix was to logout of the gui back to the gui boot manager.
Hit Alt-ctrl-f1
login as your user
use the following commands
mv .kde .kde_backup
mv .local .local_backup
mv .config .config_backup
Hit alt-ctrl-f7 to get back to login manager
Login as usually
Now it looks like you just started KDE for the first time.

The other way may or may not work. Install the Redhat-Artwork rpm and then many of the missing links may come back or placed in differnent areas.

Another way is editing ~/.config/menus/applications-kmenuedit.menu. Some off the links may not be visable because of location in the config file.

Not sure what the deal is in the precompiled rpms. Build mine from source and created my own RPMs and SRPMs.

Brian1

Hirszu · 04-30-2006, 11:51 AM

I've only deleted the whole Games menu section from the application-kmenuedit.menu file and it works now. Thanks Brian1!

Brian1 · 04-30-2006, 01:01 PM

I will keep that one in mind there Hirszu. There is more than one way to do it in Linux.

Brian1