Greg Shikhman schreef: > Hi, > > After installing gentoo and gnome on my current system, I don't get > programs added to my program files after emerging them (ex: > firefox-bin does not enter the menu after emerging it, I have to do > it manually). Could anyone list any reasons why this could happen?
Does the item still not appear after you have in one way or another restarted the gnome-panel (thereby re-reading the menu)? I.e. , 1) killing gnome-panel and letting it restart; 2) logging out and back in; 3) rebooting. It fairly often happens that one expects the program to automatically appear immediately after install (and much of the time it does), but it does not appear to occur, because of the way the program is added to the menu (or something), and so the item is there, but the menu is not updated 'on-the-fly' to actually show it (until the menu in memory is re-read due to a restart of the panel). I see this a lot with -bin programs, for some reason (Loki stuff, OO.o, doom3 and the like), they just don't show up till I log off and on again-- but since I usually don't log off and on again, or reboot for that matter, I think that there's something wrong. Second possibility is that the programs you're installing are KDE or other WM programs that are not interoperable with the GNOME menu. This is obviously not the case for something like Firefox, but you could install.... oh, KPat, 750 times and it's never going to appear in the GNOME menu (though K3b will). Third possibility is that you're using an older version of GNOME with "even more broken menu functionality" than the current version (2.10.x) has? GNOME, like KDE is migrating to the freedesktop.org standard, but until such migration is complete, we will still encounter bumps like this. GNOME 2.10 is the first major effort to integrate these standards, and it's not a completely smooth transition (especially since many application install routines are not necessarily compiant with the standard either, sometimes because the install routine was created before there *was* a standard to comply with). That probably explains why I see this most with -bin files. Anyway, hope this helps... I think the problem may not be as great as it appears, but please test and see. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
