Bug 265901 – Applications menu is empty in Kickoff after upgrade to KDE 4.2.2

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Vasilis Lourdas 2009-04-12 21:15:42 UTC]

Today, I upgraded to KDE 4.2.2. I unmasked it and upgraded from 4.2.1. I also emerged the testing Qt 4.5, so KDE 4.2.2 was built against that version of Qt.

After logging out and in again, the Applications menu in Kickoff is empty. See attached screenshots. Launcher does not recognize any K application. I also noticed that in the file associations system setting, no application is listed for any extension (eg. for txt, the list of application handlers is empty).

I suspect this is some kind of a path problem, but I don't know where to look.

[Comment 1 Vasilis Lourdas 2009-04-12 21:16:33 UTC]

Created attachment 188141 [details]
Strange descriptions in Favorites menu

[Comment 2 Vasilis Lourdas 2009-04-12 21:17:05 UTC]

Created attachment 188142 [details]
Applications menu is empty

[Comment 3 Vasilis Lourdas 2009-04-12 21:17:54 UTC]

Created attachment 188145 [details]
Launcher does not recognize the KDE application (does not show its icon)

[Comment 4 Vasilis Lourdas 2009-04-12 21:20:31 UTC]

Created attachment 188147 [details]
File associations does not list any application handlers

[Comment 5 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) 2009-04-12 21:21:39 UTC]

So what :]
We masked 4.2.2 on purpose.
If you really want to use it use -kdeprefix.
This is not a bug, it is work in progress we are aware of.

[Comment 6 Vasilis Lourdas 2009-04-12 21:23:34 UTC]

OK, the least I could do is to report the problem, right?

Thanks for letting me know that you are aware of these issues.

[Comment 7 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) 2009-04-12 21:29:49 UTC]

(In reply to comment #6)
> OK, the least I could do is to report the problem, right?
> 
> Thanks for letting me know that you are aware of these issues.
> 

Oh dont take it as i am rude. I am just laughting that people are so active that they test the work which i am literaly touching right now :]
I am aware of it and we will definetly fix it when it goes unmasked (tho no revision bumps).
But your report is most complex i saw so far. Most pple just jump up on irc stating that +kdeprefix is broken :D

Well enjoy your kde, and hope you will find it not much buggy when we unmask it :]

[Comment 8 Vasilis Lourdas 2009-04-12 21:32:24 UTC]

No offence taken. :-)

Tomorrow I will test with -kdeprefix.

Thanks for all the nice work. :-)