Missing stuff from 6.06 LTS to 8.06 LTS upgrade.

[Kipton Moravec]

On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 19:46 -0700, Francis Earl wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 21:30 -0500, Kipton Moravec wrote:
> > I did the upgrade from 6.06 LTS to 8.06 LTS.
> > 
> > I have three immediate problems. 
> > 
> > 1. At the top of the screen to the right of the System menu item, I have
> > funky dark rectangles where my Mozilla Foxfire and Evolution Icons
> > should be. During the installation it said it could not find the .png
> > files. Where do I get the Icons and where do I put them?
> 
> The icon for Firefox is located:
> /usr/share/pixmaps/firefox-3.0.png
> 
> The icon for Evolution is located:
> /usr/share/icons/Human/scalable/apps/evolution.svg
> 
> You can simply right click where the icon is supposed to be and select
> "Properties", click on the box to the upper left and type those into the
> resulting location bar at the top of the window.


Thanks did not think of right clicking. They were in the ICON choices.

> 
> > 2. Mozilla works from blank Icon, but Evolution blank Icon says "Could
> > not launch application, Failed to execute child process
> > "evolution-2.6" (No such file or directory)". How do I fix this?
> 
> Using the same "Properties" application as before, simply remove the
> -2.6 section Command area, but be careful not to remove more.
> 
> The command area should read: evolution --component=mail when you're
> done.
> 

Got it also thanks.

> > 3. Under menu Applications -> Office I have both "Evolution" and
> > "Evolution Mail and Calender" Selecting "Evolution" I get "Could not
> > launch application, Failed to execute child process "evolution-2.6" (No
> > such file or directory)". 
> > Selecting "Evolution Mail and Calender" Evolution starts. It says
> > version 2.22.1 in the About. How do I get rid of the extra Evolution
> > menu without killing the evolution that works?
> 
> You can fix that by right clicking the word "Applications" and choosing
> "Edit Menus"... then go to the Office and uncheck Mail and Calender
> enter... then right click the other entry and remove the -2.6
> part again.
> 

There was no "edit menus" under Applications, but I found under System
-> Preference -> Main Menu and was able to fix it there. 

> Apologies for the problems you have experienced, hopefully the rest of
> the process has gone great for you  :)

Only thing not working at the moment is HP Printer attached to a Windows
XP computer. But I have not tried to figure out on my own, what is wrong
yet.

Thanks for the help.

Kip
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