kmail

[Derek Broughton]

Jonas Norlander wrote:

> 2008/3/13, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>:
>> Tom R wrote:
>>
>>  > Jamie,
>>  >
>>  > The discussion didn't seem to cover how to add an item
>>  > to the KDE Menu though it would seem that it was the
>>  > obvious answer to your problem.
>>
>> It 's NOT the obvious answer to his problem, though.  KMail isn't
>> _supposed_
>>  to have a menu entry, but in any case, if he can't run it from the
>>  console, he can't run it from a menu.
> 
> Kmail has always had an menu entry in all distros i have tried and
> looking at the source
> there is a KMail.desktop there so it's probably _supposed_ to have a menu.

No.  Having a .desktop file doesn't mean it should have a menu.  In fact,
this one is _specifically_ to prevent it having a menu:

$ tail -n3 /usr/share/applications/kde/KMail.desktop
X-DCOP-ServiceName=kmail
Categories=Qt;KDE;Network;Office;Email;
NoDisplay=true

> I think Kubuntu developer removing it for some unknown reason. 

It's pretty obvious - it's to prevent people complaining when they start
KMail and nothing happens, because you already have kontact running.
-- 
derek