kmenuedit considered harmful

Luciano Montanaro mikelima at cirulla.net
Tue Nov 8 10:15:37 GMT 2005


El Martes, 8 de Noviembre de 2005 11:07, Boudewijn Rempt escribió:
> On Tuesday 08 November 2005 10:59, Luciano Montanaro wrote:
> > I have had two colleagues in the office in this week that managed to
> > hose the KDE menu with kmenuedit.
> >
> > If you "delete" an item, there is no easy way to get it back; what
> > people may want to do is to disable some of the menu entries, but once
> > in a while they want them back. And if you "delete" by mistake a
> > complete submenu you are on your own.
> >
> > I'm sure the program can be fixed, but given that we are nearing a
> > release, should we still ship the program?
>
> Not unless there's a go-back-to-the defaults button on it.

Yes, I think that would be a decent short-term solution.

> I did without 
> the k-menu for two months until I discovered that the menu configuration
> isn't actually kept in .kde. Stupid me, of course, but apparently I'm not
> the only one.

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