[gobolinux-users] KDE menu editing problem

[Jonas Karlsson]

2007/2/8, Paul Dann <giddie at christian.net>:
> Hi there,
>
>   Has anyone else had trouble with editing the menu in KDE?  I'll
> explain --- if I add an item to the KDE menu, kmenuedit will add the
> entry into ~/.config/menus/applications-kmenuedit.menu and seemingly do
> all the updating correctly.  However, KDE seems to be ignoring the
> user's menu, and will not display the new item at all, showing only the
> standard menu from /System/Settings/xdg.

There was quite a number of hits on Google for this one (I searched
for '~/.config/menus/applications-kmenuedit.menu', but one could
surely find better hits with more specific search). Have you looked at
any of those? The only advice I can give you, as I can't reproduce the
issue here, is try running 'kbuildsycoca --noincremental' to rebuild
the menues.

> Also, when I send a file to
> the Trash, it goes to /System/Links/Shared/Trash, not
> ~/.local/share/Trash.  Viewing trash:// doesn't show any of the contents
> of ~/.local/share/Trash (files which were deleted before this problem
> arose).  I'm pretty sure these two things are related.  This all started
> when I updated KDE to 3.5.5 I think, and I've since compiled 3.5.6 in an
> attempt to fix it, but no change.  I tried installing packages of the
> older versions again, resetting all the configuration I can find, but I
> may have missed something.  I've tried editing the menu from a different
> user account that had no previous kde configuration in their home
> directory, but this makes no difference.  Interestingly, root can edit
> his user menu fine --- KDE will read the menu entries from his home
> directory.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas? Paul
>
Seems like a permission error somewhere. Perhaps some app can't be
runned by a regular user? What user is X running as? KDE-apps?

-- 
/Jonas