kde build - configuring desktop

[Carlos Leonhard Woelz]

On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 19:11:04 -0300, "Carlos Leonhard Woelz"
<carloswoelz at imap-mail.com> said:
> On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 13:17:32 +0100, "Barry Haddow"
> <barry_haddow at yahoo.com> said:
> > Hi 
> > 
> > I used the step-by-step instructions to build kde from source. It seemed
> > to go 
> > ok, I built arts, kdelibs and kdecore, and I'm able to run kde from the 
> > build. However, when I run kcontrol, the control centre is empty, and
> > using 
> > the menu editor to add items to the K menu seems to have no effect. Do I
> > need 
> > another module in order to configure my desktop? or is there something
> > else I 
> > have to do?
> 
> It seems to be some problem with your .desktop files/menus. What
> distribution are you using? Did you use the tip in the end of the guide
> about the xdg menus? Does that solve your problem?
> 

For your info: this problem was fixed removing the
$KDEHOME/share/applink directory. I will add that to the building guide.

Cheers,

Carlos Woelz