Deb. Testing & appmenu-gtk2-module, easy to deinstall if useless?
by Herve5 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#53ZH4)
Sorry for this rather arcane question.
I am upgrading my system with a beautiful Lenovo Thinkpad P53 with the latest Debian-testing, Xfce version, and I hit a problem when re-installing two softwares that are very helpful for me, Readerware and VueScan.
The thing is curious : upon startup, there is an enormous wait time of 25~30s, then everything starts normally and the behavior is perfect from then on.
With Readerware we converged to the fact it is related to the GKT+ look and feel, and as one can select other looks, I just did that and practicaly this is solved.
I don't have the same option with VueScan (I just initiated the discussion with his brilliant but single-man author), but I stumbled upon this discussion , where a module named appmenu-gtk2-module is proposed apparently as a workaround for this behavior.
(its intro says :
Many applications implement menus as GtkMenuShells and GtkMenuItems andaren't looking to migrate to the newer GMenuModel API.The AppMenu GTK+ module watches for these types of menus and exports theappropriate GMenuModel implementation.)
So here is my question : I am a basic end-user. I am considering installing this extra module through Synaptic.
If this does not solve anything, will it be easy for me to remove it, just by pointing it in Synaptic and selecting 'remove', or would the removal be more difficult, leaving my system in a poorer state, etc?
Thank you!!
Herve
I am upgrading my system with a beautiful Lenovo Thinkpad P53 with the latest Debian-testing, Xfce version, and I hit a problem when re-installing two softwares that are very helpful for me, Readerware and VueScan.
The thing is curious : upon startup, there is an enormous wait time of 25~30s, then everything starts normally and the behavior is perfect from then on.
With Readerware we converged to the fact it is related to the GKT+ look and feel, and as one can select other looks, I just did that and practicaly this is solved.
I don't have the same option with VueScan (I just initiated the discussion with his brilliant but single-man author), but I stumbled upon this discussion , where a module named appmenu-gtk2-module is proposed apparently as a workaround for this behavior.
(its intro says :
Many applications implement menus as GtkMenuShells and GtkMenuItems andaren't looking to migrate to the newer GMenuModel API.The AppMenu GTK+ module watches for these types of menus and exports theappropriate GMenuModel implementation.)
So here is my question : I am a basic end-user. I am considering installing this extra module through Synaptic.
If this does not solve anything, will it be easy for me to remove it, just by pointing it in Synaptic and selecting 'remove', or would the removal be more difficult, leaving my system in a poorer state, etc?
Thank you!!
Herve