KDE-3.2 Menu Edit

[Kevin Krammer]

On Tuesday 27 January 2004 05:51, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > On Monday 26 January 2004 01:33, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> >>So, I edited the file: "/etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu" and it worked
> >>fine till I restarted KDE.  Apparently the file is rebuilt when you start
> >>KDE.
> >
> > Ok, this means it is already using the xdg menu spec.
> >
> >>If there is some documentation somewhere, I can probably figure it out if
> >>you would just point me to it.
> >>
> >>IIUC, I can add a: "Categories" entry and it will work automatically.
> >>However WordPerfect is a subdirectory and I don't know how that works.
> >
> > I think the new menu spec can be found at freedesktop.org
> > My Debian packages use a different method, so I have now experience with
> > it either,
>
> OK, I read enough of it to get it to work.
>
> Is there going to be a GUI method to do this?
>
>  From time to time users ask if how to change to global menu and I think
> that some, or many, of them are not advanced users yet.  They might not be
> up to making a new XML file.

I think its KDE standard from 3.2 on, so I hope that KMenuEdit will handle it 
or there will be a tool to generate the new structure from the old one.

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer at gmx.at>
Qt/KDE Developer, Debian User
www.mrunix.de - Unix/Linux programming forum
www.qtforum.org - Qt programming forum
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