Hi, LQ community,

I want my wife to have the same KDE menu as I do. How can I replicate it? Simply copying the menu file from my account to hers just produces chaos in her KDE menu.

Thanks in advance,
Robert

My guess is that the trick will be to create a link. I have never tried this, so take with caution.

First, try this:
cd to her home directory
rename her ~/.kde directory
link in your .kde directory using:
ln -s /home/yourname/.kde

If this does not work, then I would try linking in only specific sub-directories

Obviously, the KDE is somewhat more difficult to understand.

cd to her home directory
rename her ~/.kde directory
link in your .kde directory using:
ln -s /home/yourname/.kde

If I do so as suggested, all of her configuration is identical EXCEPT the menu.

Conventional wisdom: If something is different in two user accounts, then there will be something in the user's home directory with the information......If not in ~.kde, then where???

I'm off to run a test.

This might help understand the Kde menu issue.

http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_boo.../kde-menu.html

OK---I made some changes in my menu and then did a search using file modification time.

The global config file is: /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu

The local file is: ~/.config/menus/applications-kmenuedit.menu

It seems that when you change the menu, the latter file show only the deltas to be applied to the global file.

So try linking in /home/username/.config
(Or just /home/username/.config/menus)

bigrigdriver's web page helped me a bit further. KIOSK is a tool that can somehow replicate KDE menus. But my first approach did not make an effort.

pixellany's hint to the global file and "~/.config/menus/applications-kmenuedit.menu" made me a bit stubborn. In the web page told by bigrigdriver, this principle is explained same as by you - that the "~/and-so-on" file is a delta file, but then there is no explaination why copying or linking it does not solve the problem.

May be someone can explain how to use KIOSK successfully?

Cheers, Robert