And I quote from the SUSE 9.0 Release Notes: "XDG Menu Structure As of version 9.0, the menu system of KDE and Gnome is based on the XDG standard. The configuration files are distributed to fewer directories. Administrators can easily adapt the menu structure for their users by editing the XML file /etc/xdg/menus/application.menu. The new structure is the result of a backport from the upcoming KDE version 3.2. The included KDE version features XDG support, which was backported from KDE 3.2. Furthermore, menu branches are automatically condensed if a submenu only contains one entry. This characteristic can be deactivated with /etc/opt/kde3/share/config/ kickerrc:ReduceMenuDepth." What I did to get all of my menu entries to show again was what Vitaly suggests: "BTW: if you have problems, kill your ~/.kde/tmp-*/sycoca, and relogin. i noticed that it helps sometimes. " Or the radical alternative is to delete in /tmp all your userid settings, relogin and start messing with your menus. Same difference. Grand idea to unify all menus within Linux. We have to have this so switching window managers is more painless. I see it as a must have to ease the transition from Windows or Gnome or KDE or Fvwm to whichever. Just have to work the bugs out. Such as the one where if there is only one entry in a sub-menu it gets collapsed to the next higher menu level as a single menu entry. It inherits the name of the sub-menu heading instead of the menu entry. Personal nit to pick perhaps. Stan