Problem running kcontrol from menu

[Ryan Daly]

On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 10:53 -0500, Ryan Daly wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 16:26 +0100, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > On Saturday 10 November 2007, Ryan Daly wrote:
> > > All:
> > >
> > > I saw a posting on this in the kde-devel archives, but the thread ended
> > > before a resolution was found.  The link is:
> > > http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-devel&m=116460522917827&w=2
> > >
> > > I'm running into the same problem w/ v3.5.7.  I built this using
> > > konstruct.
> > >
> > > When I click on the Control Center from the menu, I see the following:
> > >
> > > kio (KLauncher): KLauncher: Got start_service_by_desktop_name('kcontrol',
> > > ...)
> > 
> > Can you check if you have a kcontrol.desktop file in 
> > $prefix/share/applications or a subdirectory of it?
> > If you have a KControl.desktop, try copying it to kcontrol.desktop (all lower 
> > case).
> > 
> > Should work either way though, at least it does on 3.5.7 installed from binary 
> > packages.
> 
> Thanks for the quick reply.  I tried copying and creating a symlink to
> it, but no luck either way.
> 
> I did notice that when I copied the file, my 'kbuildsycoca' produced
> this:
> 
> kbuildsycoca: new: /opt/kde/v3.5.7/share/applications/kde/kcontrol.desktop
> 
> However (pulling from the thread referenced above), when I issue
> 
> ktradertest Application '' "DesktopEntryName=='kcontrol'"
> 
> I get the following:
> 
> query is : Application
> genericServiceType is :
> constraint is : DesktopEntryName=='kcontrol'
> preference is :
> kio (KSycoca): Trying to open ksycoca
> from /var/tmp/kdecache-daly/ksycoca
> kio (KTrader): query for Application : returning 0 offers
> got 0 offers.
> 
> So something still isn't picking up that kcontrol.desktop file.

I also noticed that I'm receiving the same symptom when attempting to
edit the main menu.  (Meaning if I move my mouse over K Menu,
right-click, and select Menu Editor, I get the following:

kio (KLauncher): KLauncher: Got start_service_by_desktop_name('kmenuedit', ...)

But, the menu editor does not launch.
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