Problem running kcontrol from menu

[Ryan Daly]

On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 22:12 +0100, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Monday 12 November 2007, Ryan Daly wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 21:03 +0100, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> 
> > > Do any of the .desktop files installed in /usr/share/applications
> > > contain "Core" or "Settings"?
> >
> > Since my $prefix is different, I looked
> >
> > in /opt/kde/v3.5.7/share/applications.  I found the following:
> 
> I meant /usr/share/applications because this is the default for XDG menu 
> entries, i.e. to check of .desktop files installed by the distribution 
> contain those categories.

Sorry.

Yes.  The following contain "Core".

gnome-about.desktop, gnome-panel.desktop,
nautilus-cd-burner-open-iso.desktop, nautilus-cd-burner.desktop

The following contain "Settings".

cddb-slave.desktop, fedora-bluetooth-properties.desktop,
fedora-im-chooser.desktop, gnome-gdmphotosetup.desktop,
gnome-gkbd-indicator-plugins-capplet.desktop,
gnome-screensaver-preferences.desktop,
gnome-screensaver-properties.desktop, gnome-volume-control.desktop,
gpilotd-control-applet.desktop, gstreamer-properties.desktop,
livna-config-display.desktop, redhat-authconfig.desktop,
redhat-neat-control.desktop, redhat-neat.desktop,
redhat-userinfo.desktop,redhat-userpasswd.desktop,sun_java.desktop,
system-config-date.desktop,system-config-securitylevel.desktop,
system-config-users.desktop

> > The only problem is I'm not sure where in the menu structure these files
> > live so that I can attempt to start them.
> 
> Actually this might be the cause.
> 
> I found another posting by David Faure on this matter [1], basically a follow 
> up on the thread you linked to in your first posting.
> 
> Since David seemed to believe it might be caused by the distro's menu files 
> and, if I remember correclty from one of your other postings, you are running 
> Fedora, I am adding Rex to CC.

Yes.  I'm running FC7 at the moment.

I'll be trying this on a RHEL 5 Desktop client, too.  I'll update
accordingly.

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