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Old 03-25-2004, 08:05 PM   #1
rutherti
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Menus reorganized in 10.0 Community


Running Mandrake 10.0 Community with KDE 3.2 and I'm very happy with it except I've somehow lost the highly compact and organized main menu (with Office, Internet, Multimedia, System, and More Applications plus Home). Now the "All Applications" part of the menu has 11 entries (Development, Editors, Graphics, Internet, Multimedia, Office, Open Office, ...) plus Find Files, Help and Home.

I suppose this is self-inflicted but I'm not sure how. Did I do something with Menudrake or was it one of the updates I applied from Mandrake Update.

I find it very hard to understand what is happening when I use Menudrake, so it's quite possible I did something I didn't mean to. Is there any way I can return to the original menus short of re-installing?

By the way, this started when I tried to upgrade from Mozilla 1.6 to the 1.7 beta. That upgrade isn't available from Mandrake Update so I tried to follow the step-by-step instructions for a manual upgrade. In so doing I lost the menu for Mozilla altogether. That led me to Menudrake. <grin> Where's that big ol' UNDO button when you need it?

Any ideas? Also any suggestions on reference info on managing Mandrake menus?
 
Old 03-26-2004, 05:25 AM   #2
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I dunno what happened here but something similar has happened to me before, but in a way totally different too.
Any way, I fixed it by opening the menueditor. Firstly click on the action menu->modify menu style and make sure it says the all applications menu.
Save your changes.
If that doesn't work then click on the file menu->reload user config and save.
Finally try file->reload system menu.
 
Old 03-26-2004, 06:46 PM   #3
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T'anks BJZ it worked!

Yikes, this was amazingly easy once you have the Most Important Clue. Thanks beejayzed - It worked on the first instruction. As soon as I selected the "All Menus Style" and exited, the menu returned to the view I was expecting.

I had to find a way to run MenuDrake (not too hard using console I must admit) because that option on the menu got all shy and stopped responding - no reaction at all. Hmm.

Gotta love Linux - my answer came from the other side of the world, literally. Thank you beejayzed!
 
Old 03-26-2004, 09:03 PM   #4
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It's a pleasure
 
  


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