Mario Streiber writes:
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