kde menu scrambled

disorderly · 12-09-2005, 08:12 PM

hello!
i ran 'yum update kdewebdev' last night and after it was done i notice that my kde menu is missing some items. Specifically my "system settings" folder is wiped out and only contains 'kyum', and 'yumextender', which i installed myself. i tried runnning kbuildsycoca but it only remade my preferences folder.

how can i rebuild my system settings menu?

thanks,
disorderly

disorderly · 12-15-2005, 09:18 PM

ok it turns out this is a simple fix. i found the answer here

Quote:

Just a thought the next time you fiddle with KDE menus.

KDE provides no straightforward method to modify the default menus in a global manner. All

menu modifications you make will be stored in your home directory in the ~/.config/menus

directory.

A work-around I discovered to make global changes to the menu is to perform those

changes---as normal user is fine---and then as root move the resulting

applications-kmenuedit.menu file from ~/.config/menus to /opt/kde/etc/xdg/menus. The latter

directory is where the KDE menu is stored.

Similarly, if you want to restore the original menu structure in KDE, merely delete the

applications-kmenuedit.menu file from ~/.config/menus.

I hope this helps.
Woodsman

so i just backed up ~/.config then deleted it, ran "kbuildsycoca" and it rebuilt my menu!