Install the latest KDE. Ti Kan wrote:
SuSE 9.1 Pro with the stock KDE 3.2 here.
I added more items to my K menu using the menu editor (kmenuedit). All seemed to work ok because the K menu does show what I added.
However, now if I invoke the menu editor again to make additional changes, I can no longer get into some of the submenus. Clicking the [+] box to expand that submenu just turns it into a [-] but it does not expand and show the subordinate contents.
I looked around and found that the K menu is apparently defined in the ~/.config/menus/applications-kmenuedit.menu file, with additional definitions in the ~/.local/share/applications and ~/.local/share/desktop-directories directories of files. The latter two looks reasonable and correct, but the first file looks really messy. Seems that each time I moved an item in kmenuedit from one place to another, deleted an entry, or some other operation it pollutes the menu definition with lots of <Moved>, <Exclude>, <Deleted>, <NotDeleted> and other garbage. It looks really nasty.
I saved a copy of the applications-kmenuedit.menu file and tried to "hand clean" it, and although I was able to get the K menu itself to look reasonable, kmenuedit still has trouble with it.
After googling the web for solutions I came across suggestions about deleting the ~/.kde/tmp-hostname/ksycoca link, log out and let KDE regenerate them. Tried that and it didn't make any difference.
It seems that kmenuedit is just awfully broken. Anyone else experiencing this? Any wisdom about potential remedies?
-Ti