updating menues

[Michel D'HOOGE]

On Wednesday 06 September 2006 23:15, Hawkwind wrote:
>  I think update-menus came from Mandriva
No. This is pure debian and is provided by package 'menu'.

Here is an excerpt from its man page:
> Before the advent of update-menus, when the system administrators installed
> a package onto a Debian system, they would need to edit various window
> manager configuration files to make the new program show up on, for
> example, fvwm's menus. The menus could easily become out of sync with what
> programs were actually available, with some menu items that didn't work,
> and other programs that lacked a menu entry. update-menus and Debian's menu
> package aim to solve this problem.

Unfortunately, I believe it is not up-to-date with the freedesktop 
recommendations to use .desktop files in */applications folders. Maybe it is 
still used by the Debian sub-menu.

Maybe something like DCOP: kmenuedit.reparseConfiguration() could be used. No 
guaranty.
-- 
Michel
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