KDE Menu Editing, SuSE 9.1 Professional

bmschkerke · 07-07-2004, 07:34 PM

Boy this sure seems like it should be easy.

I want to edit the KDE Kicker Menu. I know about kmenuedit - but it apparently doesn't support what I want to do. For that matter, I'm not sure I can do what I want to do with the freedesktop.org menu specification.

Right now KDE's menus are structured like so...

Multimedia -> Volume Control -> AlsaMixerGUI
Multimedia -> Volume Control -> KMix
Multimedia -> Volume Control -> gamix
Multimedia -> Media Editing
Multimedia -> RealPlayer

Multimedia -> Media Editing isn't actually software. It's a category with only one piece of software in it, so it gets collapsed automatically.

Multimedia -> RealPlayer is exactly what I want to do - it doesn't exist as a category, but only by itself.

If you move Broadcast 2000 (the software pointed to by Multimedia -> Media Editing) so that it resides only in Multimedia, with no subcategory, KDE goes berserk and begins listing two of every icon/software under Multimedia under that category.

Worse, if you close kmenuedit and restart it you'll find the items that were moved no longer appear at all.

I can hand edit the files but doing that so that there isn't a subcategory on each item causes the first error of duplicate icons.

Anyone have any tips? I simply don't want a Category -> Subcategory -> Application hierarchy. I want a Category -> Application hierarchy.

Any help is appreciated.

burgeke · 08-03-2004, 08:01 AM

Menu editing is broken after applying the kdebase updates from YOU. Either rollback to the stock version of kdebase and kdelibs or upgrade to 3.2.3

I wish they would fix this!

Anaximander · 09-26-2004, 11:38 PM

It's seems as if this may be a dead article, but hopefully bmschkerke will be able to benefit from it anyway.

I, too, ran into the same problem. I had three instances of Kaffeiene in my menu and just didn't want them in there. Ran KMenuEdit and got the duplicates. I figured that there had to be something in the settings that was making it so.

Here's what I found to remove my duplicate entries.

browsed to '/home/<username>/.config/menus'
opened 'applications-kmenuedit.menu' in my favorite text editor for KDE.

In there I saw this bit of information.

Code:

 <Menu>
  <Name>Multimedia</Name>
  <Menu>
   <Name>Music</Name>
   <Layout/>
   <Exclude>
    <Filename>kde-kaffeine.desktop</Filename>
   </Exclude>
  </Menu>
  <Menu>
   <Name>Jack and More</Name>
   <Deleted/>
  </Menu>
  <Layout>
   <Merge type="menus" />
   <Menuname>Administration</Menuname>
   <Separator/>
   <Menuname>AudioPlayer</Menuname>
   <Menuname>Burning</Menuname>
   <Menuname>CD Tools</Menuname>
   <Menuname>CD</Menuname>
   <Separator/>
   <Menuname>Jukebox</Menuname>
   <Menuname>AudioVideoEditing</Menuname>
   <Menuname>More Programs</Menuname>
   <Menuname>Music</Menuname>
   <Menuname>AudioVideoRecorder</Menuname>
   <Menuname>Sequencer</Menuname>
   <Menuname>TV</Menuname>
   <Menuname>VideoPlayer</Menuname>
   <Menuname>Mixer</Menuname>
   <Merge type="files" />
   <Filename>realplayer.desktop</Filename>
  </Layout>
  <Menu>
   <Name>CD</Name>
   <Layout>
    <Merge type="files" />
    <Filename>kde-kscd.desktop</Filename>
   </Layout>
  </Menu>
  <Menu>
   <Name>Jukebox</Name>
   <Layout/>
  </Menu>
 </Menu>
 <Menu>
  <Name>.hidden</Name>
  <Include>
   <Filename>kde-kaffeine.desktop</Filename>
  </Include>
 </Menu>

The Section in Red, I removed and then saved the file. Clicked on the menu, and viola, duplicates gone.

Hope this helps.

gpowell · 11-06-2004, 10:27 PM

see the question "KDE Menu Editor does not work in Suse 9.1 KDE 3.2" in this forum. May solve you problem.