This is about menu starter items. I want to be able to create .desktop files for ~/.local/share/applications/ initially either with a text editor, or with KDE3's or KDE4's menu editor, and later migrate them to, or from, other users. ISTR while SuSEconfig was alive that .desktop files could be placed from elsewhere into ~/.local/share/applications/ and they would be ignored until such time as SuSEconfig was run. I'd like on systems where SuSEconfig is still present to be able to run SuSEconfig -module modulename to do this, but there seems on 11.4 at least to be no documentation to discover what modules exist, thus no way to discover what module to run in order to make KDE see these migrated .desktop files, forcing SuSEconfig to in effect timestamp unchanged files, in addition to making the menu items work. Post-SuSEconfig, what tool takes its place? NAICT, xdg-desktop-menu may be what SuSEconfig used, and what to use since, bug as is normal for man pages, http://linux.die.net/man/1/xdg-desktop-menu lacks examples that make its prose understandable. Neither does it explain whether it's designed for global use (changing something in /etc/), or user level ($HOME only). What bothers me most is that mere existence of a valid .desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications/ is insufficient for the application/configuration it defines to show up in a KDE menu. Why is anything more necessary? -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org