Stupid Mandrake

[Jerry Davis]

On Saturday 12 June 2004 07:08 pm, Phil Mattison wrote:
> A while ago I installed Mandrake 9.2 on a machine I use for PHP
> development. I was very impressed with how smoothly the installation went,
> and how polished the user interface was (I'm using KDE, but Gnome looks
> pretty good as well). "Wow," I thought, "maybe Linux does have a chance on
> the consumer desktop." Recently I got a Netgear print server to share a
> couple of printers among 4 desktop systems. Setup on the Windows machines
> was *very* simple, and worked without a hitch. I figured it might be nice
> to be able to print from the Mandrake box as well, so I started up the
> provided printer configuration wizard. It wanted a root password. Ok. It
> wanted the installation CD. Ok. It searched my network, found a printer,
> asked for some basic info, and offered to print a test page. It didn't
> work, but by then I decided I had spent enough time on it, and stopped.
> Imagine my surprise when I discovered that about half the applications on
> the startup menu had disapeared, including Kdevelop, all the Drake config
> tools, and the Konsole app. Who knows how much time I'll have to waste now
> restoring everything that was screwed up. Maybe days. What kind of
> cheese-butt software is this? Displace Windows? Yeah, right.

do a scan with kappfinder to get back your menu items

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