Should KDE programs be shown in Ubuntu Gnome menu?

[Markus Schönhaber]

Alexander Skwar wrote:
> Markus Schönhaber schrieb:
> > You may have one, but it won't appear until there's at least one entry
> > under it. Start Alacarte (for example right-click on the menu bar on
> > "Anwendungen" and select "Menüs bearbeiten"). Chances are that you'll see
> > it there.
>
> You're right, in Alacarte, there IS a debian menu. How do I make it show
> up on my menu? It has entries (eg. X-Shells -> XTerm).
>
> ....
>
> Hmmm.... Now, all of a sudden, there *IS* a Debian entry in my menu?
> Strange.
>
> > BTW: After I installed KNode the corresponding menu entry was added to
> > the "Internet" menu - where it belongs. But I don't remeber if I had to
> > check the box besides it in Alacarte to make it actually show up or not.
>
> You're right again. KNode was under Internet. The "visible" checkbox
> was not checked. After checking it, it showed up on my menu. Maybe
> me toggling *something* in alacarte was, what made the Debian entry
> show up in the menu?

I don't think it answers your questions above but just for the records I 
mention it here:
AFAICT all the user-specific menu settings are reflected through *.desktop 
files in
~/.local/share/applications
For example, if you activate the menu entry for KNode (I also did that as I 
remember now) in Alacarte, a file
~/.local/share/applications/kde/KNode.desktop
is created with it's the main difference to
/usr/share/applications/kde/KNode.desktop
being that it contains a line
Hidden=false

You can even create your own menu entries by placing a correctly made .desktop 
file there.

Regards
  mks