Installing an App into K-Menu

[Waldo Bastian]

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On Thursday 22 May 2003 12:32, Martin Koller wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 May 2003 19:56, Martin Koller wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > what is the correct way in a program installation script to also register
> > this new application into the K-Menu structure?
> >
> > I tried to create a desktop entry file into ~/.kde/share/applnk
> > but the new entries (in fact I created a directory and in it two desktop
> > files) appear only if I restart kicker. (using KDE 3.1.1 on RedHat)
> >
> > Is that a correct behaviour ?
> > Shall I somehow add a dcop call (how?) to restart kicker after adding a
> > new entry ?
>
> I've now seen, that also a restart does not help directly - but when I wait
> a few seconds before looking inside the K-menu, then I see the new entry.
> Seems that there is some timeout scanning the directory !?

Yes, there is some delay. There is a small timeout and the ksycoca database 
needs to be updated which takes a few seconds.

If you add the following dcop call to your script:
	dcop kded kbuildsycoca recreate

The timeout is shortened a little bit and you can be sure that the database is 
up to date when the call returns.

Cheers,
Waldo
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