[solved] Create New Folder, others missing in kde desktop...

jawilson · Last edited by jawilson on Tue Jun 05, 2007 12:48 am; edited 1 time in total

In kde 3.5.6, right-clicking on the desktop or in konqueror does not bring up the option to create a new folder (or anything else, for that matter) in the context menu. The only option is Create New -> Link to device, and nothing else. Any ideas to where these options may have disappeared, and how I can get them back?
Thanks

*edit- I should also note that these options are missing in konqueror under the Edit menu. Also, this happens for ALL users on the system, including root.

TemplarKnight · Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 8:27 pm Post subject:

Did you accidentaly do sthg recently that might have messed up config files or anything? U emerged the whole kde or just picked some of the split ebuilds?

jawilson · Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 8:31 pm Post subject:

I can't think of anything that I might have done that would cause this. For all intents and purposes it is the whole kde; not actually kde-meta, but most of the apps that would pull in. I don't think I have installed anything new that would do this. I am currently re-emerging kdelibs to see if that does anything; I've already re-emerged kioslaves and kdesktop, which did nothing.

TemplarKnight · Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 8:35 pm Post subject:

Try dispatch-conf to see if there are any pending config files that need updating and then revdev-rebuild to check for broken deps.

Also try logging in as a different user (or kdesu konqueror) to see if there is any difference

jawilson · Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 8:37 pm Post subject:

Hey,
I have done both already (and just now again) and nothing. Keep the ideas coming, though!

TemplarKnight · Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 8:44 pm Post subject:

jawilson · Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 8:46 pm Post subject:

Nope, not even then. (I added that to the original post). I have tried as myself, another user, and root, and none work.

TemplarKnight · Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 9:34 pm Post subject:

This seems to be a bug.. u did: emerge kde right?
Please post the output from emerge --info

jawilson · Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 10:12 pm Post subject:

Nope, I did emerge kdebase-startkde, and then built on top of that with whatever I needed. I'm pretty sure startkde provides kdesktop and konqueror and definitely kdelibs, which seem to be the likely culprits (and which I am currently emerging).

jawilson · Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 11:31 pm Post subject:

Oh, here is emerge --info:

gsoe · Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 12:16 am Post subject:

Strange problem. Two thoughts:
Did you try making a new user, so as to get .kde* totally unaffected by the former setup?
In my experience kdelibs can be picky compiling. Have you tried disabling ccache during compile?

jawilson · Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 12:47 am Post subject:

It seems that emerging kdelibs, kdesktop, and konqueror fixed the problem. After hours of searching, it seems that this behavior is hardcoded into the kdelibs code, so I must have done something to screw it up. So, if anyone else has this problem, try re-emerging these.