new AdobeReader and KDE

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Thu Jul 24 23:04:26 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 18:47 -0400, Max Pyziur wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Craig White wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 16:22 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> >> Craig White wrote:
> >>
> >>> AdobeReader_enu-8.1.2_SU1-1.i486.rpm
> >>>
> >>> When I install it, it doesn't create any menu entries in KDE, but it
> >>> does in GNOME.
> >>
> >> Doesn't here.
> > ----
> > that's vague...are you confirming my experiences?
> > ----
> >>
> >>> This appears to be true on Fedora 8-x86_64 and Fedora 9-i386 and
> >>> probably other versions but that's all I've tested so far.
> >>>
> >>> Anyone else seen that? Workaround?
> >>
> >> Umm, it's a bug in AdobeReader... report to Adobe?
> > ----
> > that's what I am thinking...I was hoping for a confirmation first
> >
> > Craig
> 
> In the meantime you can remedy it by
> logging in as root
> 
> changing directories to
> /usr/share/applications/
> 
> and then making a symlink
> ln -s /opt/Adobe/Reader8/Resource/Support/AdobeReader.desktop AdobeReader.desktop
----
that worked - well, I should say that and a 'kquitapp plasma &&
plasma' (which never hurts to clean up the gtk-widgets) settled things.

I gather that this is a confirmation that I am not the only one with KDE
issues with the newest AdobeReader_enu installer and a report to
AdobeLabs is in order.

Thanks

Craig




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