I used Mandrake 10 for about 2 weeks, so I know what KDE 3.2 looks like. For a couple of reasons I switched to Slackware 9.1 (which I am utterly happy with! ) and it came with KDE 3.1. Well, 3.1 doesn't look as good as KDE 3.2 (IMHO) so I decided, hey, I will uninstall KDE using swaret and then bada-bing install KDE 3.2.1 using swaret :-)

Well, it seems KDE was updated... but... something threw me off when my background was still the same... Sure enough, I went, clicked on the menu, AH! To my astonishment there was -STILL- the 3.1 MENU (only now it says 3.2 on the side going up.... odd, huh?)

So my question is:

How can I get the KDE 3.2 menu? Did swaret not remove all of KDE? TIA!

Ummmm... Mandrake doesn't use the standard KDE menus (unless you specifically used the Menu Editor to tell it to do so). Nor does it use the standard GNOME menus. It uses a special Mandrake menu setup, so that your menus are conformed over all desktops, except that under KDE it does use the title borders ("All Applications", etc), and it does do the MRU (Most Recently Used-- or Most Often Used, depending on what you set in the KDE Control Center).

Anyway, what I'm saying is that afaik, the standard menus for 3.1 and 3.2 are pretty much the same, except for (as you noticed) the side image. And if you didn't (un)install kdeartwork, you don't have any new themes -- and why would your background change, anyway? That would be rude, just changing your background when the old background that you presumably chose previously is right there.

So I'm not completely sure that you do in fact know what KDE 3.2 looks like, if you've been using the Mandrake tweaked version for this time, and so am not sure that there's anything wrong with your current installation.

What does the KDE Control Center say your KDE is? You can always use the KDE Menu Editor (KMenu?) to re-organize your menu to something you find more useful.

resolved :-)

pkgtools removed kde, then installed using swaret. Much better lol

That works too....

Good for you.