Mandag 13 september 2004 08:20 skrev Mario Streiber:

Marc Collin's Message from Monday 13 September 2004 03:48:

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hi

the kde menu editor don't reflect my kde menu...

in the kde menu editor it's ok

http://pages.infinit.net/borland/editor_menu_internet.png

http://pages.infinit.net/borland/editor_menu_education.png

i save...

but when i go in kde menu... i have some application in double

http://pages.infinit.net/borland/kmenu_education.png http://pages.infinit.net/borland/kmenu_internet.png

any idea?

I have the same prob here. I think I know the reason but I don't know how to clean up this menu mess. I have SuSE 8.1 with KDE 3.2.1.

It seems KMenuEdit writes the menu entries to ~/.local/share/applications/, while the K-Menu reads its contents from .kde/share/applnk/.

Then there also is that file .config/menus/applications-kmenuedit.menu. It seems it is somehow responsible for which entries will appear in which menu, but I still don't see the complete picture how the KDE menus are set up.

My not so nice solution is to copy the files manually to the correct location after I edited them with KMenuEdit.

I am very interested in how this works, so I would appreciate if someone could shed some light on this.

Mario

Hi Mario, I can't help you with the innerworkings of KDE-menus, I too am looking forward for someone to shed some light :-) But, - could a symbolic link not solve your problem instead of copying?? -- ------------------------------- Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Open Source Academy +45 5696 4223 www.os-academy.dk -------------------------------

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I have the same prob here. I think I know the reason but I don't know how to clean up this menu mess. I have SuSE 8.1 with KDE 3.2.1.

KDE 3.2.1's kmenuedit is simply broken. I had the same problem on my SuSE 9.1 machine. It was fixed by upgrading to KDE 3.3.0. -Ti

Mario Streiber writes:

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KDE 3.2.1's kmenuedit is simply broken. I had the same problem on my SuSE 9.1 machine. It was fixed by upgrading to KDE 3.3.0.

I was afraid someone would post something like that. There are no RPM's for 8.1 anymore, so I would need to upgrade SuSE first or compile myself.

But since I don't change the menu too often I will probably stay with my current config.

Do you know how the menus of the latest KDE version work? Which dir's are used etc?

I don't know how it *all* works, it seems pretty convoluted. But it does use stuff from your ~/.config/menus/applications-kmenuedit.menu file, as well as stuff from your ~/.local/share/applications and ~/.local/share/desktop-directories, as well as some system-wide stuff elsewhere. -Ti

C. Richard Matson's Message from Monday 13 September 2004 23:05:

On Sunday 12 September 2004 11:20 pm, Mario Streiber wrote:

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Marc Collin's Message from Monday 13 September 2004 03:48:

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hi

My not so nice solution is to copy the files manually to the correct location after I edited them with KMenuEdit.

I just change the path using the menu editor. Rich

That's interesting. How do you do that? I don't see such a feature in my KMenuEdit. Mario