Installing an App into K-Menu

[Waldo Bastian]

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On Tuesday 20 May 2003 19:56, Martin Koller wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> what is the correct way in a program installation script to also register
> this new application into the K-Menu structure?
>
> I tried to create a desktop entry file into ~/.kde/share/applnk
> but the new entries (in fact I created a directory and in it two desktop
> files) appear only if I restart kicker. (using KDE 3.1.1 on RedHat)

They are supposed to be picked up automatically.

You can try the following dcop call:

dcop kded kbuildsycoca recreate

Cheers,
Waldo
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