KNetworkManager options menu doesn't display items.

[alienjon]

I'm not sure when it started exactly, but at some point (possibly immediately after upgrading to 8.10) the menu options for KNetworkManager (in the taskbar) do not display. I had a similar problem with open office but found out that it was a problem specific to that program. As I don't see this problem with anything else (yet, at least) I think this is also related to just KNetworkManager. I did not have the problem in 7.xx and it may have occurred right after installing the nvidia graphics driver (proprietary) Any thoughts?

I've attached a screenshot for reference.

[alienjon]

Re: KNetworkManager options menu doesn't display items.

I just found that I have the same problem with kaffeine. I had just read something about kaffeine being dropped in favor for dragon, so I think that the issue may be related to the upgrade from 3.5 to 4.0. I'm going to try to re-install knetworkmanager to see what happens (As I'm not compiling it against anything, I'm not sure if it'll work or not, but I figured its worth a shot)

With that being said, is there a kde4 version of knetworkmanager available or is it still the same interface?

[stajin]

Re: KNetworkManager options menu doesn't display items.

It could be because you upgraded rather than a fresh install (I had crazy things happen when I did that), when I did a fresh install everything worked great.

[alienjon]

Re: KNetworkManager options menu doesn't display items.

I was wondering about that. Hmmm... Well, it may be worth a re-install. Luckily its a laptop, so I don't keep many important files on it. I may wait a bit, yet, just in case but its worth a shot.

[stajin]

Re: KNetworkManager options menu doesn't display items.

Well, I'm no expert by any means, but maybe it's something to do with fonts?
I -think- there are a couple of font modules that the NVIDIA driver doesn't load by default (ext, freetype, type1 - add in the modules section (where glx is)) and maybe that could be the cause?
I'm just thinking that as mine was missing those, worth a shot maybe?

[alienjon]

Re: KNetworkManager options menu doesn't display items.

Maybe, but it seems to only occur with apps compiled with kde3 apps (although now that you mention it, I do seem to remember hearing somewhere that KDE4 doesn't use xorg.conf anymore, so if the kde3 apps still use it for the fonts, that may be a cause). I'm away from my computer for now, but I'll let you know later tonight how it turns out. Thanks for the suggestion!

[alienjon]

Re: KNetworkManager options menu doesn't display items.

Ok, well, thanks for the suggestion but adding the fonts didn't fix it. I think I'm just going to do a full install of 8.10, opposed to the full upgrade I had done earlier.