[Kde-kiosk] Creation of menu structure

[Waldo Bastian]

RedHat added its own menu handling code, I suggest you contact them for 
details.

Cheers,
Waldo

On Wednesday 02 April 2003 22:35, Ragnar Wisloff wrote:
> I'm trying to understand how the menu structure gets created in KDE 3.x,
> on a RHL 8.0 system, and hope that someone on this list could help me.
> It's not strictly limited to a kiosk environment, but certainly related.
>
> There are .directory files in /usr/share/desktop-menu-files that seem to
> have a bearing on what gets created in /var/lib/menu/kde/Applications,
> and the contents in that directory, symlinked to
> /usr/share/applnk-redhat is what get displayed in the K-button menu. It
> seems that a program desktop-create-kmenu sets up the contents of the
> menu, but I can find no documentation for it. It gets called by the Red
> Hat version of the startkde script, but not in the KDE clean version of
> startkde. Or maybe I'm mixed up.
>
> What bugs me is how the menu structure is decided, because not all the
> files in desktop-menu-files translate to a menu category. I have a
> feeling this is all distro-specific, is that correct?
>
> Is this documented somewhere? I'm keen to understand it, and willing to
> read :-)

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