[kubuntu-users] KDE menus

[Jonathan Riddell]

On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 11:38:27AM -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
> I'm struggling to understand Kubuntu, KDE & XDG and how it all interacts to 
> create the K menu.
> 
> These look normal:
> derek at othello:~$ kde-config --path xdgdata-apps
> /home/derek/.local/share/applications/:/usr/share/applications/
> derek at othello:~$  kde-config --path xdgconf-menu
> /home/derek/.config/menus/:/etc/xdg/menus/

That's all correct.  The root file has been moved to
/etc/xdg/menus/kde-applications.menu
from /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu

to stop clashes with Gnome.

> However, there are many KDE utilities that have no menu entries (e.g., 
> kappfinder), and reinstalling still doesn't create one, even though it 
> apparently should.

If you look in

/usr/share/applications/kde/kappfinder.desktop

You'll see I added

Hidden=true

which has been added to various .desktop files to keep the menu
simple.

Actually it should be NoDisplay=true, that'll be fixed for breezy.

> Then when I installed CrossOver office, I couldn't get the CrossOver menu 
> entries either.

Where does it install it's .desktop files and what does the
Categories= field say?

Jonathan Riddell