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Making KNewsTicker work with Mandrake 8.1
Mandrake 8.1's menu layout works great, however it has a flaw that causes KNewsTicker to be unable to launch Konqueror to view news items.
KNewsTicker depends on kfmclient_html.desktop being in the
$MENUROOT/System menu of KDE - and it's not there. The obvious solution (it would seem) is to copy kfmclient_html.desktop from
/usr/share/applnk/System to /usr/share/applnk-mdk/System, however everytime the update-menus program is run (i.e. when you install
a new MDK-friendly RPM), this menu item is wiped out since the item isn't registered with the menu system (based on debian's menu
package). Here is how to fix this problem permanently:
- First we need to sign in as root (or "su" to root if you prefer), and launch your favorite text editor. This can be pico, kwrite, emacs,
or even vi (if you insist).
- Now in the text editor we need to add this one line to the file (it should be all on one line):
?package(kdebase): needs="kde" kde_filename="kfmclient_html" section="System" title="Konqueror" icon="konqueror.png" command="kfmclient openURL %u text/html" mimetypes="text/html" kde_opt="\\nTerminal=0\\nInitialPreference=9\\nNoDisplay=true"
- Now save this file as /usr/lib/menu/kfmclient_html.
- Finally, still as root, type "update-menus" in a terminal window.
Enjoy!
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