KDE2 upgrade now menu icons missing
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Hi, I just recently upgraded my SuSE 7.0 installation to KDE2 with rpms I downloaded from SuSE. I used yast to install. Everything worked okay and I was able to restart everything and log in using kde2. But I don't have any menu icons in either the K menu or the SuSE menus. I have text in all but a handful of items (cut & paste & run). When I look through the icons preference there is an icon displayed so it seems to know where it is but just doesn't seem to display it in the menu. I've fooled around with things some and discovered that if there is an absolute path in the icon entry of the .desktop file the icon appears, if it's just the name of the icon it doesn't. Seems like there is a pathing thing off but don't know where I could set it. And it seems kind of crazy to re-path all the icon entries because there are a lot. Any help would be appreciated. thanks ... -laura
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Hi Laura, The problem is that your Qt library was compiled with images included. Here is an extract from the Qt .CONFIGURE file showing the various switches and what they do... -shared) SHARED=yes ;; -static) SHARED=no ;; -no-gif) GIF=no ;; -gif) GIF=yes ;; -no-sm) SM=no ;; -sm) SM=yes ;; -no-thread) THREAD=no ;; -thread) THREAD=yes ;; -qt-zlib) ZLIB=yes ;; -system-zlib) ZLIB=no ;; -qt-libpng) LIBPNG=yes ;; -system-libpng) LIBPNG=no ;; -no-mng) MNG=no ;; -system-libmng) MNG=yes ;; -no-jpeg) JPEG=no ;; -system-jpeg) JPEG=yes ;; -no-nas-sound) NAS_SOUND=no ;; -system-nas-sound) NAS_SOUND=yes ;; -kde) KDE=yes Don't forget to read the INSTALL file., which shows how to set your environmental variables for both QT and KDE. Here is what a make command that enables all the graphics would look like: make -gif -qt-zlib -qt-libpng -system-libmng -system-jpeg -kde Jerry On Sunday 14 January 2001 12:54, Laura Bello wrote:
Hi,
I just recently upgraded my SuSE 7.0 installation to KDE2 with rpms I downloaded from SuSE.
I used yast to install. Everything worked okay and I was able to restart everything and log in using kde2. But I don't have any menu icons in either the K menu or the SuSE menus. I have text in all but a handful of items (cut & paste & run).
When I look through the icons preference there is an icon displayed so it seems to know where it is but just doesn't seem to display it in the menu. I've fooled around with things some and discovered that if there is an absolute path in the icon entry of the .desktop file the icon appears, if it's just the name of the icon it doesn't. Seems like there is a pathing thing off but don't know where I could set it. And it seems kind of crazy to re-path all the icon entries because there are a lot.
Any help would be appreciated.
thanks ... -laura
-- Scientific theories, according to Sir Karl Popper, can be "falsified," or proven wrong, by experiment. Unscientific theories -Marxist dialectical history and Freudian psychology were Popper's favorites- are formed in such a way that they cannot be falsified by data.
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On Sunday 14 January 2001 16:51, Jerry Kreps wrote: Hi Jerry and all: I need to jump in here... I seemed to have the same problem, as I just upgraded from the same rpm's through YaST. I know how to build from source, so the question is... if I build QT from tar.gz, will I have a bunch of failed deps. as the rpms seem to be made around SuSE 7.0. I wonder why all these graphics formats were not enabled in the rpm's. Thanks, /John
Hi Laura, The problem is that your Qt library was compiled with images included. Here is an extract from the Qt .CONFIGURE file showing the various switches and what they do...
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-kde) KDE=yes
Don't forget to read the INSTALL file., which shows how to set your environmental variables for both QT and KDE.
Here is what a make command that enables all the graphics would look like:
make -gif -qt-zlib -qt-libpng -system-libmng -system-jpeg -kde
Jerry
On Sunday 14 January 2001 12:54, Laura Bello wrote:
Hi,
I just recently upgraded my SuSE 7.0 installation to KDE2 with rpms I downloaded from SuSE.
I used yast to install. Everything worked okay and I was able to restart everything and log in using kde2. But I don't have any menu icons in either the K menu or the SuSE menus. I have text in all but a handful of items (cut & paste & run).
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Any help would be appreciated.
thanks ... -laura
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What I did was to pull the latest QtFree 2.2.2 source and compile it with the switches I gave in the previous email. I added '/usr/lib/qt/lib' to ld.so.conf and ran ldconfig as root. KDE2 has been faultless in it's performance. It has never crashed on me. JLK On Sunday 14 January 2001 20:28, John Eighmy wrote:
On Sunday 14 January 2001 16:51, Jerry Kreps wrote:
Hi Jerry and all: I need to jump in here... I seemed to have the same problem, as I just upgraded from the same rpm's through YaST. I know how to build from source, so the question is... if I build QT from tar.gz, will I have a bunch of failed deps. as the rpms seem to be made around SuSE 7.0. I wonder why all these graphics formats were not enabled in the rpm's.
Thanks, /John
Hi Laura, The problem is that your Qt library was compiled with images included. Here is an extract from the Qt .CONFIGURE file showing the various switches and what they do...
----snipped to save space-----
-kde) KDE=yes
Don't forget to read the INSTALL file., which shows how to set your environmental variables for both QT and KDE.
Here is what a make command that enables all the graphics would look like:
make -gif -qt-zlib -qt-libpng -system-libmng -system-jpeg -kde
Jerry
On Sunday 14 January 2001 12:54, Laura Bello wrote:
Hi,
I just recently upgraded my SuSE 7.0 installation to KDE2 with rpms I downloaded from SuSE.
I used yast to install. Everything worked okay and I was able to restart everything and log in using kde2. But I don't have any menu icons in either the K menu or the SuSE menus. I have text in all but a handful of items (cut & paste & run).
-------snipped again-------------------
Any help would be appreciated.
thanks ... -laura
-- Scientific theories, according to Sir Karl Popper, can be "falsified," or proven wrong, by experiment. Unscientific theories -Marxist dialectical history and Freudian psychology were Popper's favorites- are formed in such a way that they cannot be falsified by data.
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Jerry Kreps
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John Eighmy
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Laura Bello