On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 02:42:24PM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 14:17:14 +0200 > Jens Seidel <[email protected]> wrote: > > since some days I miss a start menu in xfce4-panel. First I assumed > > it is because not all xfce packages of version 4.6 where compiled yet > > and some older packages from 4.4 are still used. But today even the > > last old package xfce4-session could be upgraded to 4.6.0-2 but the > > problem remains:
OK, there are still a few 4.4 packages installed, but no important ones I think. > > Since xfce4-panel uses xfce4-menu.desktop from xfdesktop4-data and > > xfce4-menu-plugin from xfdesktop4 please add a (weak) dependence on > > xfdesktop4 (which depends itself on xfdesktop4-data). > > Well, the xfce4-panel only uses what it's told to. One can remove the > start menu (many people do) and it works perfectly fine. The thing is, > the default panel config uses the menu plugin, so yes if one installs > the panel and not xfdesktop, the default config will look a bit weird. > > But I definitely don't want to add too much dependencies, especially > when it doesn't really make sense. Even not a suggests: or recommends:? > Having a consistent default config is important, but usually a default > config is when Xfce is completely installed, and that includes both > xfce4-panel and xfdesktop4. I'm sure I had this in the past. But I hink because of the transition from 4.4 => 4.6 aptitude tried to solve some conflicts by removing packages. Maybe I did it also manually but it took really some time until most packages where rebuild on armel. > Your problem is not directly related to that, as it arrises on upgrade, > but, again, that won't happen if you upgrade consistently. And the > xfce4 metapackage already brings all the versionned dependencies. I think my system is not too unconsistent :-) Please note that I hesitated to report this problem in the past because of the ongoing transition. > > After installing xfdesktop4 the warnings vanished. I still have no > > start menu, even after calling update-menu, but I'm sure it will work > > again soon. > > That, on the other hand, is really weird. Do you now have a consistent > Xfce 4.6 installation? See the list below. > Is the start menu plugin correctly configured? I did not change the default configuration, so it should be OK. But I run out of diskspace in the last days (root was not affected), maybe this could be a reason? > Do you have a correct menu when you right click on the desktop? Right clicking is not so easy with a touchpad. But after calling 'xmodmap -e "pointer = 3 2 1"' I could test it: No, I don't have any dialog once I press the right button. # dpkg -la | grep xfce ii gtk2-engines-xfce 2.6.0-2 A GTK+-2.0 theme engine for Xfce ii libxfce4mcs-client3 4.4.2-4 Client library for Xfce4 configure interface ii libxfce4mcs-manager3 4.4.2-4 Manager library for Xfce4 configure interfac ii libxfce4menu-0.1-0 4.6.0-3 freedesktop.org compliant menu implementatio ii libxfce4util4 4.6.0-2 Utility functions library for Xfce4 ii libxfcegui4-4 4.6.0-2 Basic GUI C functions for Xfce4 rc xfce4 4.4.2.1 Meta-package for the Xfce Lightweight Deskto ii xfce4-battery-plugin 0.5.1-1 battery monitor plugin for the Xfce4 panel ii xfce4-cellmodem-plugin 0.0.5-1 cellular modem plugin for the Xfce4 panel ii xfce4-cpufreq-plugin 0.2-2 cpufreq information plugin for the Xfce4 pan ii xfce4-cpugraph-plugin 0.4.0-1 CPU load graph plugin for the Xfce4 panel ii xfce4-datetime-plugin 0.6.1-1 date and time plugin for the Xfce4 panel ii xfce4-diskperf-plugin 2.2.0-1 disk performance display plugin for the Xfce ii xfce4-fsguard-plugin 0.4.2-1 filesystem monitor plugin for the Xfce4 pane ii xfce4-icon-theme 4.4.2-1 Xfce Standard icon theme ii xfce4-mcs-manager 4.4.2-3 Settings manager for Xfce4 ii xfce4-netload-plugin 0.4.0-1 network load monitor plugin for the Xfce4 pa ii xfce4-notifyd 0.1.0-2 simple, visually-appealing notification daem ii xfce4-panel 4.6.0-2 The Xfce4 desktop environment panel ii xfce4-session 4.6.0-2 Xfce4 Session Manager ii xfce4-settings 4.6.0-2 graphical application for managing Xfce sett ii xfce4-systemload-plugin 0.4.2-2 system load monitor plugin for the Xfce4 pan ii xfce4-taskmanager 0.4.1-1 process manager for the Xfce4 Desktop Enviro ii xfce4-utils 4.6.0-2 Various tools for Xfce ii xfdesktop4 4.6.0-2 xfce desktop background, icons and root menu ii xfdesktop4-data 4.6.0-2 xfce desktop background, icons and root menu Jens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
