KDE4.1 & Seamonkey Issue

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> On 08/08/2008 01:01 AM, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> > --- NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> [snip] snip

> > 
> >> You can also enter a direct path: click the
> Browse
> >> button, browse to
> >> your SeaMonkey installation location (/usr/bin/)
> and
> >> click on seamonkey.
> >> That will place the command:
> >> /usr/bin/seamonkey/seamonkey in the menu.
> >
This is what I can't, or figure out how to, do. The
browse popup only show dirs; no files so I can only
add /usr/bin/seamonkey/seamonkey manually. Which
doesn't work even restarting X. What I do under kde4.1
is right click the panel icon and select icon settings
getting a popup menu entitled "Properties for
seamonkey.desktop-Plasma Workspace. I select
Application tab showing white bar entries for Name,
Description, Comment, Command and Work Path. I click
the icon to the right of the Work Path white bar entry
which shows "Open file dialog" hovering the mouse over
it to get the browse menu. The browse menu is entitled
"Select folder-Plasma Workspace" and contains all the
/ dir and sub dirs. I select /usr then select /bin
then /X11 shows up under /bin but there are no files
listed under these so I can't select seamonkey or any
other executable file. I hope this better explains why
I can't add the path(in toto)
/usr/bin/seamonkey/seamonkey using the browse button
and can only do it manually which doesn't work even
after restarting X or rebooting.
BTW, kde4.1 has a new K menu format and one can also
add the old classic K menu which I did.  However you
can't edit an entry from either by right clicking.
Right clicking will just try to start the application.
Right clicking the K menu icon gives you the menu
editor also so I checked it out on seamonkey with the
same results seeing only directories and no files.
Bewildering! Saved it but it still wont load even
after killing X and rebooting.
So, I logged out and started a regular kde session to
check what working panel icons had for the command
line and lo and behold, seamonkey had only /usr/bin
while opera had
.$HOME/.local/share/applications/opera.desktop and
both worked still. Have tried identical setting in
kde4.1 but they don't work.  Only see the busy mouse
pointer and the panel icon which dissapears after a
longer time it normally takes to load them.
Perhaps if someone on the list using kde4.1 and have
opera and seamonkey working loaded from the K menu and
panel icon would like to share how they did it or
their menu settings, it would be nice.
Thanks Gary,

> > Did this but I only see "/usr/bin" in my kde41. No
> > difference in results.
> 
> That's why it isn't working from the menu. If
> 'seamonkey %u' is not
> working, you need the entire path and program name
> in the command
> section, it _must_ be: /usr/bin/seamonkey/seamonkey
> 
> See below.
> 
> > 
> >> Note: be sure to use the browse button to get to
> the
> >> path/file as
> >> sometimes (at least on Gnome) just putting in the
> >> path and command
> >> doesn't always work.
> >> 
> > Did this also, but the browse menu only shows
> > non-hidden dirs, no /.files or dir are shown so I
> cant
> > get to the hidden ones. I would change the
> location to
> > /usr/share/applications for opera and seamonkey
> but
> > there doesn't seem to be a method for doing this. 
> > Don't think a "dpkg-reconfigure" would get
> anywhere; I
> > just get a prompt back when I try it.  Open to any
> > suggestions and will try them but maybe this is a
> > candidate for a bug report.  Thanks for the help.
> 
> I'm betting that it will. If it is anything like
> Gnome, when you open
> the browse window put the mouse over the file
> listings, right click and
> check "show hidden files".
> 
Yep, that worked. But didn't solve my issue.
> 
>

Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net