Getting KDE to refresh menus

[Pierre Ossman]

I'm working on getting some nice desktop integration of our product, and 
as part of that I'm trying to get the application to show up on the 
menu. If I do this by the book, putting icons in 
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/*/apps, touching the top-dir and place a 
.desktop file in /usr/share/applications then it works immediatly in 
GNOME. KDE isn't so automatic and I can't find a reliable way to do it.

kbuildsycoca refreshes the menu and gets KDE to pick up any changes. But 
most users will do a su in a console when installing the package, so it 
will refresh root's menu, not the current user (or any other users 
currently logged on).

Is there a reliable way to get all running KDE instances to pick up 
changes to the desktop files?

Rgds
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Pierre Ossman                Telephone: +46-13-21 46 00
Cendio AB                    Web: http://www.cendio.com

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