Installing an App into K-Menu

[Martin Koller]

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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)
>
> Is that a correct behaviour ?
> Shall I somehow add a dcop call (how?) to restart kicker after adding a new
> entry ?

I've now seen, that also a restart does not help directly - but when I wait a 
few seconds before looking inside the K-menu, then I see the new entry.
Seems that there is some timeout scanning the directory !?

>
> Second question regarding this:
> I like to create also an entry which points to the Online-Help page of my
> new application.
> If I create e desktop entry file with
> Type=Link
> this does not work.
> Somewhere I read that I have to use Type=Application, but then I can not
> use the Users default setting for the Web-Browser he wants to use.
>
> How can I do this?

Any Ideas here ?

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Best regards/Schöne Grüße

Martin

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