quanta does not install a .desktop into the /usr/share/applications directory; just one in the /usr/kde/3.4/share/applications/kde/; so not making it easily accessable to gnome users. Quanata does compile and works with only the core kde files needed for quanta. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual Results: no menu option for quanta in gnome Expected Results: menu item for quanta in all wms
well; I was looking around on my system; and found a suitable fix that should not case any issues on any harrdware platform; and advoid the same problem happening on other wm's. a quick and easy fix to this; is in the ebuild; post install(last I read on the ebuild there is a section in the ebuild that you can do this); do a ln -s /usr/kde/3.4/share/applications/kde/quanta.desktop /usr/share/applications/kde/ you should easily be able to understand what it does; makes a symbolic link in the global share folder for all wm's can see the .desktop file going to take on kate on to this issue; so save me from filing other bug reports. I will try to go through and identify other packages that does not make a .desktop file available to other wm's (in the default lookup path) to use. also please note; this same issue; is also on several other kde packages that I have seen so far, like kate.
This is known and applies to whole KDE. By design the content of an official KDE release goes all into /usr/kde/3.x and does not touch /usr. This should be discussed at a more general level: it is an issue about KDE and GNOME not sharing a common menu structure. This is already discussed a bit in bug 89870, any help is appreciated there. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 89870 ***
