kmenuedit is a cool piece of software, but it has one maddening feature.
When you add a new submenu with nothing selected, it always gets added at the top of the menu. When you subsequently try to move it down, each successive subfolder automatically opens up and it's not possible to keep the new submenu at the same level as the other submenus unless you move it below an item that is not a submenu. This same issue also prevents you from rearranging the subfolders into another order.
1) Anybody know how to deal with this?
2) Is there a way to edit some configuration files directly to get the desired results?
I did some digging and found that the menu itself is stored in
$HOME/.config/menus/applications-kmenuedit.menu . I tried editing that file directly with some success, but ran into problems for two reasons. A) The file is part of a larger system working with other files in
$HOME/.config/menus/applications-merged and in
$HOME/.local/share/desktop-directories and B) re-invoking kmenuedit afterward undoes some of the changes as if the file is being automatically rebuilt from another source.
Information on the menu file itself is at
http://standards.freedesktop.org/men...-spec-1.0.html
3) Is there another program I can use to edit the menu that doesn't have this problem?
4) Is there a replacement menu system I can use?
I am currently using kde 4.3.5 (kubuntu karmic), but this problem goes all the way back to dapper.
As an aside, using kmenuedit gradually makes the menu file very complicated with lots of sections of code marked as deleted and/or renamed. It doesn't just keep the code that works. It can also create directories and files in other places (see B above) that are no longer used.
TIA
Joe