Why does only classic menu work?

[kiisu]

After upgrading to 4.2kde , only the classic style menu works for me. With the kickoff style, I get no response clicking on the menu icon.

I know I should expect bugs with a beta, just wondering if this is something anyone else has experienced, or if I'm possibly just missing something simple in my settings.

thanks
K

[tomp01]

Re: Why does only classic menu work?

After upgrading to 4.2kde , only the classic style menu works for me. With the kickoff style, I get no response clicking on the menu icon.

It works for me, but I still can't get Lancelot to work with 4.2

[spotslayer]

Re: Why does only classic menu work?

I decided to upgrade from KDE 4.1 to 4.2 and I also have issues with the menu. In 4.1 the new menu woked fine, shen I went to 4.2 it still works sort of. The issue is it will not minimize. Other than that it works the same way as it did in 4.1. I am using the classic menu for now since the kickoff menu takes up to much monitor real estate.

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[kiisu]

Re: Why does only classic menu work?

At the moment I'm only able to use the kickoff style if I drag it off the menu and leave it as a plasma on the desktop. Not perfect and it's a shame as I really like the new style.

When I have it as a launcher on my panel, if I click on it I notice some twitching with the other icons (battery, wifi) on the panel so there is some kind of reaction going on, but I don't get the menu.

Suggestions anyone?

[kiisu]

Re: Why does only classic menu work?

bump

Is there a way to reinstall the menu so I can see if this problem persists? So far it's the only real trouble I've come across in 4.2 (aside from the machine occasionally freezing when it goes to screensaver).

[Nate]

Re: Why does only classic menu work?

You can right click on the K menu and "Remove this applet" (or something close to that) and then right click on the desktop and "Add Widgets". From there you can drop a new K Menu back onto your panel.

[kiisu]

Re: Why does only classic menu work?

hmm yeah, thanks for the suggestion Nate, behaviour is still the same. Strange little problem.

Alternatively, I was looking around for something else and came across the highly praised 'Lancelot' -mentioned above- but it doesn't want to install.

I tried

sudo apt-get install plasmoid-lancelot

and got this back

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
plasmoid-lancelot: Depends: libplasma2 but it is not going to be installed

So .... I guess I just need to wait until one or the other is fixed for 4.2?

btw sorry if I'm sounding uneducated with some of this stuff; I've just returned back to Kubuntu after almost a year on Gnome

[kiisu]

Re: Why does only classic menu work?

haha! success .... looks like I hadn't checked my widgets since the latest update a few days ago, and now Lancelot showed up in there/

I can see where the praise comes from .... great all-in-one menu!

[kubicle]

Re: Why does only classic menu work?

lancelot has been moved to the 'kdeplasma-addons' package, 'plasmoid-lancelot' is the legacy package built against the old plasma library (that's why it won't install)

[tomp01]

Re: Why does only classic menu work?

lancelot has been moved to the 'kdeplasma-addons' package, 'plasmoid-lancelot' is the legacy package built against the old plasma library (that's why it won't install)

Wow, thanks for that, I've asked the question several times as to why Lancelot won't run and nobody answered. I just installed kde-nightly-kdeplasma-addons and finally it works!!

[kiisu]

Re: Why does only classic menu work?

It's running fine for me and I love the look+layout.
Only one odd, tiny little issue -> whenever I start up kubuntu, the lancelot icon is half-size. It stays this way until I right-click, edit the launcher settings ... doesn't matter if I actually change anything, I just do that and then close the settings right away and the icon doubles, to it's normal size.
ANyhow doesn't make any real difference to me, great little widget.

[tomp01]

Re: Why does only classic menu work?

It's running fine for me and I love the look+layout.
Only one odd, tiny little issue -> whenever I start up kubuntu, the lancelot icon is half-size. It stays this way until I right-click, edit the launcher settings ... doesn't matter if I actually change anything, I just do that and then close the settings right away and the icon doubles, to it's normal size.
ANyhow doesn't make any real difference to me, great little widget.

I have had it running for months on KDE 4.1 but it wouldn't work on 4.2 until now, I am not seeing your half size problem.