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Tue, 26 Apr 2005 16:06:45 -0400
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Hi All,

	While we don't officially support the KDE desktop, a few of our users 
prefer it, and we offer them "best effort" support. Apparently, the KDE 
Control Center presents them with a dearth of options - 7 panels are 
available to them, as opposed to KDE's default of approximately 62 
million. Has anyone else noticed this behavior? We've made a few minor 
modifications to SL specific to our needs here, but to my knowledge, 
nothing that would cause this behavior.

	Apparently, /usr/bin/starkde calls /usr/bin/desktop-create-kmenu to 
populate /var/lib/menu/kde/* with a number of symlinks to the .desktop 
files in /usr/share/applications. desktop-create-kmenu kept throwing 
errors on the vast majority of kde-specific .desktop files as a result 
of the numerous 'Keywords' entries in each file. Lo and behold, after 
removing the offending lines from each .desktop file, the appropriate 
entries in the Control Center appeared.

	I'm not a KDE user myself, so I don't have experience using KDE with SL 
or with any other distros. A quick look at the KDE packages from Fedora 
Core 3, for example, show the same offending 'Keywords' entries in the 
various .desktop files, and I haven't been able to find any reports of 
this behavior elsewhere...

	Again, I'm curious if others have experienced the same behavior, or if 
there is some modification we've made here that caused it, or if there 
is a different solution that would have corrected the problem. Thanks!

-Sean

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