Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2271 mails)

[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Alex Khroustalev wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 April 2004 03:52, James Knott wrote:
>
> > I've been trying to make some changes to my KDE desktop menu, using the
> > KDE menu editor.  While I can select and change the various items with
> > the editor, they don't appear to be saved, after closing the editor.
> > I've tried this on two different computers and as a user and root.
> > Nothing I've tried seems to work.
>
>
> KDE stores the information about user's menu in ~/.kde/share/applnk. If there 
> is no *.desktop files there, the settings are taken from kde global share 
> directory (in SuSE /opt/kde3/share/applnk).
> a) Try something like
> mv ~/.kde/share/applnk ~/.kde/share/applnk.bak
> Edit the menu with KDE menu editor. Wait a couple of seconds or simply restart 
> KDE.
> b) You may create/edit the *.desktop files manually with your favorite text 
> editor, they are simple to understand. You may make changes globally, editing 
> files in /opt/kde3/share/applnk, or locally in ~/.kde/share/applnk.
>
> Greetings, Alex

After a couple of attempts, I'm getting somewhere, but it certainly is
flakey, when compared to Red Hat 7.3.  I'll have to do some more
checking to make sure it more or less "works".  This is not what I'd
expect from a commercial distro.


tnx jk