Comment 5 for bug 727386

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doweller (do-weller) wrote :

After googling for an hour I wasn't able to find an alternative for ksociograma. Teachers love this tool - so I simple went ahead and had a shot at installing it in Natty:

I installed ksociograma - the Maverick package - in Natty without running into any problems. Unity "does not like it": After starting it, it maximises itself and one cannot use the menu. There seems to be no way to minimise the window by clicking / double-clicking into the panel or trying to "pull" it out of it with the mouse. But after selecting 'Administrator' or 'Studenten' on the start screen only once, the menu shows up and one can change the size of the window and one gets the menu back. This problem also comes up when students enter their data: One has to close the data-entry window with Alt F4 because the menu is not there.

I tried to use
/bin/sh -c 'APPMENU_DISPLAY_BOTH=1 /usr/bin/ksociograma'
as a workaround to make the program start with the menu showing right away - but that didn't help. Maybe I'm just a iota off the right track with this ...

This could IMHO mean two things: 1. it could be relatively easy to put ksociograma back into the repository because 2. it nicely installs (though doesn't run) in Natty because no kde3 libraries / packages seem to be needed.