Re: [Cooker] Problems with Gnome and KDE3.5.9 menus after the Cooker update.

[Pomarede Nicolas]

On Fri, 30 May 2008, Steve Morris wrote:

> Kjel Oslund wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 20:35 +1000, Steve Morris wrote:
> >
> > > Moreno wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Laurent Suchet <laurent.s3@free.fr> 
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Moreno a écrit :
> > > > >
> > > > > > Hi
> > > > > >
> > > > > > This morning, after the usual updating, I have trouble with the of
> > > > > > Gnome and KDE3.5.9 menus.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > In KDE3.5.9 the menu category are in English instead of Italian but
> > > > > > there are all commands with the description in Italian language.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > In Gnome all icons have disappeared and are gone even most of the
> > > > > > commands, only the KDE commands are avaible.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Bye Bye, Moreno
> > > > > +1 with gnome, nearly no applet is correct (nor image missing, nor 
> > > > > applet
> > > > > itself missing), and all menu images are gone
> > > > >
> > > > > Kde4 works more or less (no menu entry for Konsole for example?) but is 
> > > > > far
> > > > > more stable than before (plasma doesn't crash every 15 sec anymore, and
> > > > > applets and menu are in the right place).
> > > > >
> > > > > LS
> > > > No on KDE4 i have not problem even Konsole is present.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Bye Bye, Moreno
> > > +1 with kde 3.5.9 icons, and menu entries disappearing (eg: menu entry for 
> > > drakconf). Not only this the update also changed the kde3 theme and style 
> > > from what I had set. Why?
> > >
> > > regards,
> > > Steve
> >
> > See https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=41091 comment #3 for the
> > source of the problem.
> >
> > A workaround is to add the following line to your .bash_profile
> >
> > export XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share:/usr/local/share:$XDG_DATA_DIRS
> >
> > or you can muck with the scripts in /etc/profile.d
> >
> > regards
> >
> > Kjel Oslund
> Thanks Kjel, I have made the change in .bash_profile. Do you know which 
> specific scripts in /etc/profile.d need changing as I have to make this 
> change for 5 users on my cooker machine.

You can change /etc/profile.d/91kde3.sh :

XDG_DATA_DIRS="${XDG_DATA_DIRS}:/usr/share:/usr/local/share:/opt/kde3/share"

But Nicolas Lecureil told that a new RPM will fix this soon, so maybe you 
can just wait for it.

> Also how does changing scripts in the two mentioned locations actually work, 
> as scripts in these two locations only get used/executed when a bash shell is 
> opened, so how do the menus get restored with this export command.
> Also are you able to tell me why a script placed in /etc/profile.d does not 
> need the 'X' attribute to be executable?

Script is executed nevertheless, because it is invoked with ". script.sh" 
instead of "./script.sh". Only the latest needs the x bit.

Nicolas