Clive at Rational wrote:
Hello,
IS the following expected behaviour?
In the FC4 Gnome environment I "lost" from the "panel" (3 examples)
- No application launcher / main menu (a bit like
Windows "start") - I manually re-instated it.
- No Internet browser (in fact only Evolution) in the
"internet" option under the Main Menu. I reinstated Mozilla launcher directly on the panel.
The mozilla launcher has an entry, but it is set to not display.
The entry is under /usr/share/applications/ and is named mozilla.desktop. To see the launcher in the menu, change NoDisplay=true to NoDisplay=false. Magically, the launcher will once again be visible under Internet. (Until your next upgrade)
The entry is as below:c at mozilla.desktop
[Desktop Entry] Name=Mozilla Web Browser GenericName=Web Browser Comment=Browse the web Exec=mozilla %u Icon=mozilla-icon Terminal=false Type=Application NoDisplay=true # (Change to false to see on menu) MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml;text/mml; Encoding=UTF-8 X-Desktop-File-Install-Version=0.10 Categories=Network;Application;X-Fedora;
- No "application status" under "System Tools" - to
list the applications that form part of the distribution - and which are installed. I used this to select new applications to install. After they installed, usually the "launch button" appeared under the Main Menu.
Maybe these are planned changes - I just know there is a lot of manual work to re-instate application launchers on my Gnome desktop - and I don't know what applications are installed on the machine. This "loss of buttons" is more than cosmetic. For a user like me because if the "lost" application launcher had parameters or switch settings ("--something" or "%something" else) "within" the application "launch button", these are now lost in FC4. Bit of a backward step IMO.
Clive