KDE Menu missing items

breun · #1 11th July 2004, 11:21 AM

I'm running Fedora Core 2 with KDE 3.2.3. However, somewhere along the road my K Menu lost its way a bit. Or so it seems. For instance: I do have Kate and KEdit installed, but they don't show up under Editors (only Nano does). I have a feeling more apps are missing from my menu. I already tried running kbuildsycoca with and without the --noincremental option, but it didn't help. There used to be this thing called 'kappfinder' or something, but it isn't included with KDE anymore?

Does anyone have any advise on how to reset/recreate these missing menu entries? I know I can add menu entries myself, but I would like my menu to be in the 'default' state (plus the entries added by extra programs I installed).

wolftech · #2 19th September 2004, 08:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by breun

I'm running Fedora Core 2 with KDE 3.2.3. However, somewhere along the road my K Menu lost its way a bit. Or so it seems. For instance: I do have Kate and KEdit installed, but they don't show up under Editors (only Nano does). I have a feeling more apps are missing from my menu. I already tried running kbuildsycoca with and without the --noincremental option, but it didn't help. There used to be this thing called 'kappfinder' or something, but it isn't included with KDE anymore?

Does anyone have any advise on how to reset/recreate these missing menu entries? I know I can add menu entries myself, but I would like my menu to be in the 'default' state (plus the entries added by extra programs I installed).

I have been SCOURING the net and the ONLY place I HAVE found this is in a .deb file. Not gonna happen. So, why is it not included in kdebase? It always HAS been? Not good.

breun · #3 14th October 2004, 10:52 PM

I really hope my menu will be fixed after I install Fedora 3 in about 2 weeks...

crackers · #4 15th October 2004, 03:44 AM

Try this in a terminal:

Code:

$ mkdir menu.bak
$ mv ./config/menus/* menu.bak

What we've done here is create a "backup" directory and moved the user-config menu information out of the way. Logout and log back in and your missing menu entries should be back. You'll need to re-edit your menu if you've done any modifications. I'll bet that if you look in the backup directory at the applications-kmenuedit.menu file you'll find that a lot of your "missing" entries were actually marked as "hidden."

Hint: the menu configuration file(s) are XML-based, so you can edit them with a text editor - if you're real durn careful! If you mess 'em up, your menu will be pretty well toast unless you a) start over (as above) or b) figure out where you made a mistake.

breun · #5 22nd October 2004, 04:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by crackers

Try this in a terminal:

Code:

$ mkdir menu.bak
$ mv ./config/menus/* menu.bak

At first it didn't work, but then I found there's a typo. There's a / between . and config that shouldn't be there:

Code:

$ mkdir menu.bak
$ mv .config/menus/* menu.bak

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction though, I have my menu items back!

Now I'm just wondering why I suddenly have multiple menu items for some applications. Different icons, different descriptions sometimes, any idea?

crackers · #6 23rd October 2004, 02:40 AM

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Originally Posted by breun

At first it didn't work, but then I found there's a typo.

Oops! My bad! :o

Quote:

Now I'm just wondering why I suddenly have multiple menu items for some applications. Different icons, different descriptions sometimes, any idea?

Because there are two menu entries, usually. You might want to see if you have any "old" menus in the .kde/share/applnk or .kde/share/applnk-redhat directories. These are left over from earlier versions of KDE - you'll usually have them if you're like me and have just kept your /home directories intact over a long period of time.

(Please note I didn't typo the directory this time!

)

breun · #7 25th October 2004, 10:25 AM

I have a bunch of .desktop files in my .kde/share/applnk but none in .kde/share/applnk-redhat. Are you saying all .desktop files in applnk and applnk-redhat are "old"? Can I just delete them?

crackers · #8 26th October 2004, 03:36 AM

You might check to see what's in them and whether or not you want to re-create them through the menu editor before you delete them. But afterwards, yes, by all means.

breun · #9 27th October 2004, 03:59 AM

Then what is the real location of the default menu items?

I found /etc/X11/applnk, but just now I found /usr/share/applnk, what's the deal with all these different applnk directories?

breun · #10 4th November 2004, 05:00 PM

* bump *

Does anyone know?