CentOS - Oct 2005 - Lost my menu options again - KDE messes with Gnome?

This was a problem I had a while back. I lost the "Preferences" menu
item in my "Applications" menu in Gnome. After much discussion, the
following commands got my "Preferences" menu item back, along with all
the applications inside of it:

rpm -e redhat-artwork redhat-menus --nodeps --allmatches
yum install redhat-artwork redhat-menus

But...

For some reason it isn't working this time. My "Preferences"
option in my application menu is gone, and I don't even know why it left.
And doing the commands above aren't getting them back.

Actually, I have some suspicion as to why I've lost my
"Preferences" option in my "Applications" menu. Last time
this happened, it happened after I installed Amarok and ended up with a bunch of
KDE settings I didn't want.

This time, I installed Quanta, which required some KDE libraries, but it
didn't seem to cause as much chaos as last time.

However, the implications are that for some reason, having any KDE programs
seems to affect my Gnome options.

What's up with that?

Dave

On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 21:42 +0900, Dave Gutteridge
wrote:
> This was a problem I had a while back. I lost the "Preferences"
menu
> item in my "Applications" menu in Gnome. After much discussion,
the
> following commands got my "Preferences" menu item back, along
with all
> the applications inside of it:
> 
> rpm -e redhat-artwork redhat-menus --nodeps --allmatches
> yum install redhat-artwork redhat-menus
> 
> But...
> 
> For some reason it isn't working this time. My "Preferences"
option in my application menu is gone, and I don't even know why it left.
And doing the commands above aren't getting them back.
> 
> Actually, I have some suspicion as to why I've lost my
"Preferences" option in my "Applications" menu. Last time
this happened, it happened after I installed Amarok and ended up with a bunch of
KDE settings I didn't want.
> 
> This time, I installed Quanta, which required some KDE libraries, but it
didn't seem to cause as much chaos as last time.
> 
> However, the implications are that for some reason, having any KDE programs
seems to affect my Gnome options.
> 
> What's up with that?
----
having KDE programs installed such as Quanta don't bother my system or
my Gnome menus and I don't think your cause/effect analysis is accurate.

Suggest that you logout, grab a root shell, move your ~/.gnome2 to
~/.gnome2-bak and log back in. This should reset the gnome settings back
to defaults but I am not knowledgeable about how/where things gnome are
stored. You might want to move specific program settings back from the
backup folder you created.

Craig


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Dave Gutteridge wrote:
> This was a problem I had a while back. I lost the "Preferences"
menu
> item in my "Applications" menu in Gnome. After much discussion,
the
> following commands got my "Preferences" menu item back, along
with all
> the applications inside of it:
> 
> rpm -e redhat-artwork redhat-menus --nodeps --allmatches
Right.
> yum install redhat-artwork redhat-menus
You may want/need to downgrade to the stock redhat-menus-3.7.1, instead 
of using the newer redhat-menus-3.8 provided by kde-redhat.

-- Rex