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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Confused adding !K app to K menu
From:       Aurélien_Gâteau <aurelien.gateau () mail ! dotcom ! fr>
Date:       2002-07-27 22:44:38
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Dick Balaska wrote:
> Dudes and/or Dudettes:
> 
> My question is:  How do i get a new entry to appear in the K menu 
> without exitting and restarting KDE?
> 
> I am working on a game that is not of the KApplication variety.
>   (Our toolkit is fltk, which runs on both Linux and M$ware
>    The game's project page is: http://www.buckosoft.com/xpilot/xpilot++/ )
> 
> Anyway, so i want to add our app to the KDE Games menu.
> In my configure script i check for $KDEDIR and then 
> $KDEDIR/share/applnk/Games.  I add my .desktop there and my icon into 
> $KDEDIR/share/icons/locolor/16x16/apps .
> 
> This all works except that my new menu entry does not appear unless
> i exit and re-enter KDE.

Not sure, but maybe restarting Kicker via DCOP would do it.
Try running something like : dcop kicker kicker restart

Hope this helps
   Aurélien

 
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