KDE 3.2 menu system for non native apps down?

heema · 04-30-2004, 02:24 AM

it only worked for root , i dont know why it didnt work for my account ??
and there is a debian folder that dont want to be deleted , every time i delete it from the menu editor it comes back

Outabux · 04-30-2004, 04:37 AM

added menu-xdg...no change in kde for root account
dunno whats going on but will keep at it

some apps appear however in other places but not all

thanx! keepem comin

Nishtya · 04-30-2004, 06:10 AM

the menu-xdg worked for both root and only user on my system. But I had not done anything to the (empty) debian folder on either before using it. I let it be. I heard about it like a day after the kdelibs upgrade broke it. Is everything intact under /var/lib/menu-xdg/ ? After installing it I have the /var/lib/menu-xdg/desktop-directories/menu-xdg with folder structure for the debian menu, /var/lib/menu-xdg/menus/debian-menu.menu and /var/lib/menu-xdg/applications/menu-xdg with all the .desktop files.

reyemarr · 04-30-2004, 07:23 PM

Hi guys,

I have a similar, yet different problem.

First, my debian menu for root disappeared, and some applications would not show up in the menu of my normal user account.

Then, I installed menu-xdg, and now all the menu items in the debian menu are duplicated, and root still doesn't have a Debian menu.

I created a new account, and the menus in that account are all fine.

Any ideas on what could be causing the menus in my regular user to be duplicated???

MR

reyemarr · 04-30-2004, 08:03 PM

Ok guys,

I think I fixed it. Here is what I did:

there is a directory called kde in ~/.local/share/applications. That is where the menu items are stored. When I installed menu-xdg, a new directory called menu-xdg is created with basically the same menu structure as the one in the kde directory.

Anyway, what I did was delete the kde directory (actually moved it somewhere else), and ran update-menus again. That did the trick. Hope this helps anybody with the same problem

Bye

Outabux · 05-03-2004, 07:00 PM

dont have that directory structure present in /~ or normal user accounts

heema · 05-03-2004, 07:12 PM

i tried it but its still stuck

i doesnt allow me to add or change the menu as when i delete something and save when i run menu edit again i find it still there

Outabux · 05-03-2004, 09:51 PM

remove the file that is located in this directory: /root/.config/menus/

i think its name was applications or something, but opening the file showed a header and body like html that mentioned that this file had been created when invoking the menu update tool

kc0dhb · 05-10-2004, 09:04 PM

I found that in ~/.kde/share, there is a folder called applnk

if you do the following

mv ~/.kde/share/applnk ~/.kde/share/applnk.old && update-menus

you will mv the old applnk folder, and the recreate it. That should work...

Kyle

Outabux · 05-11-2004, 06:18 AM

dunno but my post directly above yours did it properly without any moving or phenagaling with the stuff, bad enough firestarter goofy