[gobolinux-users] Application Menus

[Hisham Muhammad]

On 4/6/07, Lucas C. Villa Real <lucasvr at gobolinux.org> wrote:
> On 4/6/07, Tom Connell <Gobolinux at tjconnell.co.uk> wrote:
> > Another little point! A lot of applications do not appear in the KDE
> > menu and running the KDE menu updater although it does find 21 missing
> > applications does not find them all??
>
> Ah, that's great! I have never tried to invoke that program. As far as
> I know, the only KDE applications automatically added to the menu are
> those which have a filename such as
> Shared/applications/<name>/<name>.desktop. The updater probably looks
> for some other patterns (directories listed in /System/Links/Shared,
> maybe?) not used by KDE applications by default.
>
> I'll ensure to run that program again to include more applications in
> the next release (014).

Running that problem doesn't really fix the problem, does it? It would
add the missing apps to the LiveCD user environment (or to the
EnhancedSkel), but apps installed later may not show up. Ideally,
recipes should include .desktop files to be added to the app's shared
dir...

-- Hisham