K Menu can not be edited with Menu Editor

[Chris C]

Please find answers included below. I can now see where the problem lies but
not how to fix it!


----- Original Message -----
From: "James Richard Tyrer" <tyrerj at acm.org>
To: <kde at mail.kde.org>
Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 10:00 PM
Subject: Re: [kde] K Menu can not be edited with Menu Editor


> Chris C wrote:
> > On SuSE Pro8.0 KDE3.0.1
> >
> > Menu Editor shows lots more stuff than is actually in the menu. They are
> > not hidden.
>
> Have you upgraded to KDE-3.0.x (from something less than 3) or is this a
> new install?
An out-of-the-box install of SuSE8.0 Pro
I did do an online update from SuSE but this screwed up the help centre so I
may have upset other stuff!

>
> Can you open a Konsole and execute:
>
> kbuildsycoca
kio (KService*): WARNING: The desktop entry file OpenOffice.org
1.0/drawing.desk                 top has Type=Link instead of "Application"
or "Service"
kio (KService*): WARNING: Invalid Service : OpenOffice.org
1.0/drawing.desktop
kio (KService*): WARNING: The desktop entry file
SuSE/Games/Board/gtulpas.deskto                 p has Type=Game instead of
"Application" or "Service"
kio (KService*): WARNING: Invalid Service : SuSE/Games/Board/gtulpas.desktop
kio (KService*): WARNING: Invalid Service :
SuSE/Multimedia/Video/susewm.desktop


>
> Do you get any error messages from it?
>
> > Adding even more still yields no change to K Menu.
>
> When you add something to the Menu with the Menu Editor, does it create
> a file in the tree rooted at: ~/.kde/share/applnk/"?
There are a few

opt/kde2/share/applnk
opt/kde3/share/applnk
opt/office52/share/kde/applnk
etc/opt/kde3/share/applnk
home/chris/.kde/share/applnk
home/chris/.kde2/share/applnk

If I add an item in Menu Editor in the root  (ie top level in the tree view)
it is placed in home/chris/.kde/share/applnk but it does NOT appear in THE
menu. If I add an item in an existing node in the Menu Edit tree then in the
home/chris/.kde/share/applnk folder it adds the top level folder of the tree
view and the item within it. But ... yep no change in the menu itself.

It appears from inspection that Menu Editor is showing a combination of
home/chris/.kde/share/applnk AND opt/kde3/share/applnk.

It appears from inspection that THE menu is made up of
etc/opt/kde3/share/applnk only. I note that Above Bookmarks is a line then
above that is a dashed line. I assume between here is where the user entries
that do not have a common top level item with 'share' should show? I have
nothing in here.

>
>  > This is  the same for the one user (me) and root.
> >
> > In fact there is stuff in K Menu that doesn't appear in the same place
> > or at all in the Menu Editor!
>
> The is still a minor bug in the Menu Editor and the stuff doesn't always
> appear in the correct order. :-(
>
> > Help - please!
>
> You have a rather large mystery here.
>
> So, please try the above and post your results.
>
> --
> JRT
>
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