Re: FC5 and redhat-artwork
Rex Dieter <rdieter <at> math.unl.edu>
2006-05-02 17:46:46 GMT
Rex Dieter wrote:
> Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I did a 'yum install redhat-artwork' and it didn't do anything. Thus I'm
>> still using the redhat-artwork that came with the distro DVD (or the
>> official updates repo?). My icons are all ugly (in the K menu and the
>> panel)...:( It's using generic folder icons a lot when it should be
>> using "special" ones.
>>
>> I'm using FC5, repos enabled from the distro DVD install, kde.repo and
>> livna.repo.
>
> Here's the combination that doesn't work (like what you're seeing):
> installed: redhat-artwork
> not-installed: kdelibs-menus gnome-menus
>
> Turns out, if you want redhat-artwork (ie, Bluecurve icons) to work with
> stock redhat-menus, you also need gnome-menus installed (crazy, yes, but
> true).
>
> Maybe I should file a bug about that...
Found the *real* bug, and will hopefully release updated kdelibs/kdebase
later today to fix that. Turns out redhat includes a kde-applications.menu
in their src.rpms, but they don't actually use it anymore.
Good news, is that they use kde's applications.menu, renamed to
kde-application.menu, so this means we can do away with kde/kdelibs-menus.
Bad news is that their patch to hard-code use of kde-appliations.menu still
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