Issue 12428 - Items in start menu for e.g. Gnome and KDE
Summary: Items in start menu for e.g. Gnome and KDE
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of issue 12344
Alias: None
Product: Installation
Classification: Application
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: current
Hardware: PC Linux, all
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Olaf Felka
QA Contact: issues@installation
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Reported: 2003-03-17 22:13 UTC by simonbr
Modified: 2003-09-08 16:53 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description simonbr 2003-03-17 22:13:57 UTC 
Hi, it was reported that the installation does not add items in the start menu 
for Gnome, like it's done under MS-Windows. In KDE3, I saw that items were 
available in the menu editor, but you have to add them to the start menu 
yourself. 

The user installation should add the items in the start menu for the desktop 
environments for which configuration files are found in the user's home 
directory (in any case for the most common desktop environments such as KDE and 
Gnome).
Comment 1 Olaf Felka 2003-03-18 09:48:20 UTC 
We are working on this.

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 12344 ***
Comment 2 Olaf Felka 2003-03-18 09:49:32 UTC 
As duplicate
Comment 3 nospam4obr 2003-03-18 10:11:56 UTC 
Hi Simon,

regarding the KDE issue: which distribution are you using ? For e.g.
SuSE there is no way to make the menus appear automically without
having the user to switch from "SuSE menus" to "KDE default menus" in
the Kontrol-Center.
Comment 4 simonbr 2003-03-18 19:38:59 UTC 
Hi Oliver,
SuSE 8.1
I found the menu items in the menu editor, and copied them into the 
tree below the SuSE start menu.
Comment 5 nospam4obr 2003-03-19 08:00:01 UTC 
Hi Simon,

SuSE is doing special things here, which we are not going to support
in our installer: for us it is too much work to do this for every
linux vendor and probably every new release, so we leave the job of
adapting OpenOffice.org to their menu system up to the linux vendors.

To see that OpenOffice.org installs its files correctly, you could
change Control-Center -> Look & Feel -> Menu Settings -> Main Menu
from "SuSE menu" to "Standard KDE menu" and the OpenOffice.org menu
will appear without further modifications.
Comment 6 simonbr 2003-03-24 19:55:14 UTC 
Hi Oliver, 
Fair enough. With OpenOffice.org installing menu items in "standard" 
Gnome and KDE environments, that is all one reasonably could ask for.