kde application "kompare" won't run anymore

[Juergen Beisert]

Am Samstag, 26. Juli 2003 18:23 schrieb Otto Bruggeman:
> > Then I have change the rank, so "kompare" is now the first application to
> > work with files *.dif (before that, "kwrite" was the first application).
> > And I have changed the icon for files of types *.dif. Since I have done
> > it, "kompare" won't run anymore.
>
> I assume you did this with the File Associations KControl module ?

Yes.

> This error means that kompare cant find the komparepart, something must
> have fucked up the desktop files, try deleting komparepart.desktop (there
> might be a _ between kompare and part) from your $KDEHOME (usually ~/.kde/)
> directory. Then if you can edit the komparepart.desktop file in the $KDEDIR
> (/opt/kde3 or /usr/something) and put Preferences = 100 or so in it. The
> same goes for kompare.desktop.

I have deleted the "komparepart.desktop"-file and the other files with 
"kompare" and "desktop" in their names in my .kde directory. Now "kompare" is 
back working. Yiiipiii.
What does the second thing: Adding "Preferences=100" to the other files?

Thank you very much for your help.

-- JB
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