Just installed LEAP - is old-style Application Menu possible?

Well, well, well. :slight_smile: Pretty cool! It wouldn’t start the desktop until I removed my GTX 750Ti video card, but hey! I read a lot on the interweb and it seems that LEAP has a lot going for it. I was asking myself, “OK, why not take this opportunity to jump to some more “science-oriented” distro like CentOS, Fedora (or maybe even MINT), now that OS is changing majorly?”

The answer was, again, as it was in the past, the two bits of the opensuse code which have kept me from successfully jumping ship to kubuntu or MINT, say: YaST (a really big deal!!!), and the hierarchical organization of the Application Menu. Well, LEAP kept the former but has dumped the latter. Any way the latter could be reinstated for all packages?

This probably doesn’t sound like a big deal, but that menu organization actually saves a lot of brain power when fighting some problem late at night (i.e., when the coffee isn’t helping much).

Thanks for a great distro,
Patti

PS: How to install the 32-bit Package Pattern? How to install kio-sysinfo? Also, I can’t seem to figure out how to do a console login. It gives me the options of various desktops, and shutdown/reboot buttons. Where’s the console login button?

“Application menu” sounds like a GUI thing to me. But I nowhere se what GUI desktop you use.

Until now nobody volunteered to build a 32-bit version of Leap 42.1

I followed the suggestion of wolfi


# cd /etc/xdg/menus
# cp applications.menu kf5-applications.menu

That gave me back the old menu structure.

There has been one update that undid that change, so I had to repeat the copy.

:cry: KDE - guess it’s called plasma 5. Apologies, my dyslexia is getting worse, I guess. (at 61 I guess I can claim hippocampal atrophy?) About the 32-bit version of OS - that’s not what I meant - you know, package pattern.

WOAH!!! Thanks nrickert!!! I thought I did a decent search, but missed wolfi’s post, apparently.

Is it still politically correct to say opensuse? If so, opensuse comes through again. Still in the top 5 on distrowatch.

It is correct to say so, but it is written openSUSE since ages.

Since more than ten years, I recently found out ( again ).

LOL! I seem to remember OpenSuSE. What that, 10.x? Or maybe my imagination…

It never was OpenSUSE. There was a switch from SUSE Linux 10.1 to openSUSE 10.2. See: openSUSE - Wikipedia

The KIO-Slave sysinfo:/ can be downloaded from the KDE:Extra repo, although it is no longer supported/maintained

https://software.opensuse.org/package/kio_sysinfo

Dyslexia, again? You say 61 instead of 16.:wink:

LOL! Ya, I know. I don’t understand, but that’s maybe my dyslexia again… infinite loop…

Hah! Seems like 10 years is the blink of an eye, these days. Well, not a blink - maybe a nap. A season is the blink of an eye. lol!

Hahaha…

Tell me about it! I’m from the group that saw 2001 as science fiction!

… and, that was just the other day, AFAIR.rotfl!