When are .config/menus/* read?

[Rex Dieter]

Erik Forsberg wrote:

> We have an application that generates menus for users by modifying
> ~/.config/menus/kde-applications.menu before kde is started.
> 
> Now we've started to see problems with KDE not picking up the changes
> until we run a kbuildsycoca. Earlier, this was not a problem, but with
> recent KDE, for example the KDE shipped in SLED10 and SuSE10 (KDE
> 3.5.something), a kbuildsycoca run is needed.

In my experience, kbuildsycoca runs if the monitored *.menu files are newer
than /var/tmp/kdecache-$USER/ksycocastamp

-- Rex

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