On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 02:34:44AM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > What is happening here? An install gone wrong somewhere? > No, breakage in Adobe's packaging. They do not properly support 64-bit > installations. 32-bit KCMs cannot be used on a 64-bit system. The fact that > their KCM lands under "Lost and Found" is also a bug (another one) in > Adobe's setup. (They aren't categorizing their KCM properly.) Just to understand the difference: this problem does not happen when I do the same installation on my laptop with 64-bit F15/Gnome3. There the 'flash-player-properties' icon is displayed properly and works. Is KDE/KCM more complicated? > > I can start 'flash-player-properties' as a command in a terminal > > and it seems to work (I did have to install an additional i686 > > library first that it complained was missing) > You may want to unhide the menu entry for flash-player-properties with > kmenuedit (right-click on the menu button to fire the menu editor up) and > delete or ignore the broken System Settings module (the file to delete is > the .desktop file somewhere under /usr/share/kde4/services, or less > brutally, add Hidden=true or NoDisplay=true to it). Adding Hidden=true did the trick. No more 'Lost and Found' entry. > Their attempt at supporting KDE is causing more harm than good. Complain to > Adobe about all those issues. We cannot do anything about them (except > telling you about the above workarounds). I shall report it to Adobe. Thanks for the explanation and help. Alexander (who used not to use Flash but capitulated) _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
