[Leaplist] KDE menu- a glitch?

[Jim Hartley]

I will just note that I have an HP720C on this machine (Fedora Core 6) 
and it works fine. Not networked, using the old LPT port/cable.

Jim Hartley

patrick wrote:
> Three identical computer systems, side by side, and two have weirdness!
> 
>  In KDE menu, I grab some programs using Synaptic, in a new category of
> sub-menu such as >Administration>Games (as it appears on one machine)
> but, grabbing the exact same items in two other identical computers, the
> menu doesn't get updated with the new sub-menu!
> 
> I even edited the menu in the two other machines, but the menu that
> appears in the editor do not show up in KDE main menu at all!
> 
> Is there a KDE menu auto-upgrade thing, somehow, turned off?
> 
> The complaint that the Accountant's ole MS XP Homely AMD 2800+ computer,
> with 512 Mb RAM, was creepy crawly slow, at the school, and wouldn't
> print partially due to AV that expired before the virus did.  Having 108
> items in the start-up menu didn't help.
> 
> The HP720C printer doesn't work in a Live Linux CDrom either, and I
> think all the gooey, aged, mummified, ink inside there, on the paper
> feed rollers might be partially to blame.  The fact that this HP
> computer prints over the network in Mepis LiveCDrom , and in MS XP
> Homely, shows that it is OK.  the HP 720C printer lights work and
> indicate that it receives text, 'prints', and communicates back over the
> parallel port cable that it is complete.  Except no paper moves.
> 
> Too bad the 'fix' for the slow HP XP Homely computer was to purchase an
> even newer system, with the Vista Homely on it.  With 1Gb RAM it is
> slower than the ole XP unit, once I cleaned the ole system up!
> 
> Everyone at the Wilford Woodruff Academy likes the Fedora Core 7 systems
> and thanks all of you who have worked on this project.
> 
> Some of the children asked me to please get Tux Paint on ALL the
> computers, as one very bright lad, age 7 or 8, has been doing Maya,
> Blender animations at home for a "few years", now, and is teaching the
> others!
> 
> So, they all got TuxPaint, Blender, and the educational software in
> Synaptic, such as GCompris, Childsplay, and other Suites, but, don't
> appear in the main menu of some computers!
> 
> All comments are welcome.
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