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By cdabb at 2005-02-07 09:53
Edit the Global KDE Menu Items from a console for Suse Linux

Adding applications:

To edit the KDE menu you must be root.
# su

Change in to the KDE applications directory:
# cd /opt/kde3/share/applications/kde

You need to create *.desktop for the new application. This would normally get setup with the applications name .desktop. With this example we are going to setup gedit:
# vi gedit.desktop

Add in the following entry in to the gedit.desktop file:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
GenericName=Advanced Text Editor
Name=GEdit
Exec=/opt/gnome/bin/gedit
Icon=/opt/gnome/share/icons/HighContrastLargePrint/48x48/apps/gedit-icon.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Qt;KDE;TextEditor;

Save file.

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