On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 12:23:26PM +0100, John Scott wrote:
I've tried with the merge box checked and unchecked. I'm not using the SuSE menu. I think this may have something to do with SuSE mods for the SuSe menu. The interesting thing is that I can't find an identical menu directory tree anywhere on the system. I have no idea where this is being merged from. If I delete apps from ~/.kde2/share/applnk they are still there when I reboot. Even if I delete them from /opt/kde2/share/applnk. How is that possible?
If you want to customize your menu from ~/.kde2, then you should leave the merging on. One advantage to using the SuSE menu is that it gets updated by YaST when you add/remove programs from the CDs. Of course, you can always use it as a sub-menu from the default K menu. My own testing (on 7.3) has shown the standard SuSE menu items to be in /etc/opt/kde2/share/applnk/SuSE. But remember these get updated by YaST so I think it is better to use merging to change the menu. The default KDE menu items appear to be in /opt/kde2/share/applnk/ as you noted, but they never get used unless you switch to the KDE menu instead of the SuSE menu. One other thing you might want to look at are the file permissions for your menus. If your ~/.kde2 items are owned by root, you might not be able to read them as a regular user. Also, KDE caches the menu for a short time, so changes won't show up immediately unless you turn off the cache which will tend to slow down the menu. Because of the way KDE merges menus (Gnome does too by the way), it can sometimes be hard to track down why the menu ends up the way it does. Best Regards, Keith -- LPIC-2, MSCE, N+ you may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one Got spam? Get SPASTIC http://spastic.sourceforge.net