Openwith menu broken

[Waldo Bastian]

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On Thursday 24 July 2003 16:47, Michael Reiher wrote:
> Hi!
>
> For quite some time now this is bugging me, the "Open with" menu is kind of
> broken. At least this is what it appears like, I suspect the real propblem
> lies some where deeper. The problem: To pick the worst example, my open
> with menu for postscript files shows 6 KGhostview entries! Most other apps
> show up only two or three times. Some only once as it should be, these seem
> to be mostly non KDE apps.
>
> First, in the KGhostview case there are two times three entries, this seems
> to be related to profilerc. If I delete it or "edit file type" i'm left
> with just tree entries. OTOH the 6 entries sometimes magically reappear.
> Also the "edit file type" dialog shows just three entries.
>
> Next, I'm left with tree entries per KDE app. I have those
> kghostview.desktop files:
> a) $KDEDIR/share/applnk/Graphics/kghostview.desktop
> b) $KDEDIR/share/applications/kghostview.desktop
> c) $KDEHOME/share/applnk/Graphics/kghostview.desktop
> Now, one entry seems to stem from c), another from a) and the last one I
> don't know. It even remains if I delete all three...
>
> Whats b) btw?? Is it a new way to store applnk files? If yes, shouldn't 
> there be legacy support or automatic deletion of a) and c)?

For b) see http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/menu-spec/1.0-onehtml/

There is legacy support but maybe it doesn't completely work as intended.

> Another thing is that the entry order in the menu often isn't retained.
>
> What certainly plays a role in that problem, is that I rarely delete my
> $KDEDIR(as I hate recompiling all 3rd party KDE apps, which often needs a
> lot of manual tweaking) and actually never delete my $KDEHOME for apparent
> reasons. So both probably contain old neglected deposits from times long
> since gone. But I suppose this is the case for many users.

As long as they have the same name they shouldn't cause duplicate entries.

> So what am I supposed to do now? Delete a) c) and what ever for each KDE
> app? Should I delete my applnk dirs altogether? And even I do I'm still
> left with the magic duplication of the remaining entry.

I'll look into it.

Cheers,
Waldo
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