[3.5 branch] need help with XDG menu implementation problem

[Kevin Krammer]

Hi,

I'd like to ask for help regarding an issue with the implementation of the 
freedesktop.org menu spec in KDE.

About two weeks ago I discovered that a Debian patch broke the correct 
handling of XDG menus, because it made it use kde-applications-merged instead 
of applications-merged which, according to the menu spec, must be used even 
if the applications.menu file is prefixed with a desktop specific identifier 
(e.g. "kde-")

The packagers reverted that patch. but now a couple of other things go wrong.
:(

In kdelibs/kded/vfolder_menu.cpp I found something like this:

m_defaultMergeDirs << m_docInfo.baseName+"-merged/";

By also looking at an strace of kbuildsycoca I gather that "baseName" is at 
one time "kde-applications" (from kde-applications.menu) and so kbuildsycoca 
looks at a directory which doesn't exist.

According to the menu spec there is an environment variable called
XDG_MENU_PREFIX which is supposed to be used in cases where GNOME, KDE and 
others need different menus.

Not sure if a correct solution would be to strip XDG_MENU_PREFIX from baseName 
or if m_defaultMergeDirs should contain both directories.

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-core-devel/attachments/20061107/a0e41298/attachment.sig>