Subject: Re: KDE3 troubles...
From: civileme (civileme@mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Thu Apr 18 2002 - 13:16:49 AKDT
On Wednesday 17 April 2002 04:23 pm, Joshua J.Kugler wrote:
> Hello all (especially Civilime :)
>
> Well, I installed KDE3, using the packages from the KDE FTP site. No
> worries. After fixing a couple bugs, I was doing fine. Well, I was
> reading on the Mandrake website today, and it said I should run
> update-menus. So, even though all my menus were fine, I did. Well, now my
> menus are empty. As in, no entries. None. And I can't run kcontrol (KDE
> configuration) from the kicker icon. 1) There is a general icon there,
> indicating it wasn't found, and 2) when I click it, it gives me the
> message:
>
> Service '/usr/opt/kde3/share/applnk-mdk/KControl.desktop' is malformatted.
>
> (By the way, that should be 'malformed.' Malformatted isn't a word. At
> least not according to Merriam-Wester.)
>
> So, where is the config file that I toasted? What do I need to symlink
> back to make everything work? I even uninstalled then reinstalled KDE3,
> but no luck. Thanks for any help you guys can give. I can get around with
> Alt-F2 (run command) but a menu would be nice. :)
>
> BTW: Mandrake 8.2. All the menu entries are in my home directory, as well
> as /opt/kde3/share, as well as /usr/share (left over from kde2).
>
> j----- k-----
Delete the applnk-mdk file
Civileme
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