Installing an App into K-Menu

Martin Koller m.koller at surfeu.at
Thu May 22 11:28:41 BST 2003


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On Wednesday 21 May 2003 01:05, Robin Atwood wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 May 2003 21:53, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> RH have altered the applnk directory structure. System entries are in
> /usr/share/applications and user ones in ~/.kde/share/applnk-redhat.
> Recompiling from source sorts this nonsense out!
> HTH
> -Robin.

In fact I'm using KDE compiled from source (I kicked out the RH stuff long 
time ago)

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Martin

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