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Subject: Re: kde3 menu config file locations
From: Ron Peterson <rpeterso () mtholyoke ! edu>
Date: 2004-09-03 14:48:58
Message-ID: 20040903144858.GA14569 () mtholyoke ! edu
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On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 10:51:24PM +0200, Torsten Rahn wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 1. September 2004 22:44 schrieb Ron Peterson:
> > Another way of asking the same question might be: If I wanted to
> > manually insert a menu folder containing one item into my personal menu
> > by editing config files, how might I go about that? I've tried setting
> > KDEDIRS, creating $KDEDIRS/share/applnk/<foldername>, and putting a
> > .desktop file in that folder. As people more clueful than me might
> > ascertain, that didn't work. What am I missing?
>
> You are trying to do it the old way. Have a look at
>
> http://freedesktop.org/Standards/menu-spec/0.8/
>
> to see how KDE & Gnome do it these days ...
Thanks, that's good information. I didn't know about that.
Well, I finally got a chance to get back to this. What's odd, is that
even according to the above standards, my approach should work. The
/etc/xdg/menus/application.menu has a
<MergeFile>applications-kmenuedit.menu</MergeFile> directive. This
should grab ~/.config/menus/applications-kmenuedit.menu.
I did finally get this to work, but I can't entirely explain why. I
ended up manually editing my prototype user's
.config/menus/application-kmenuedit.menu. It was kind of crufty, on
account of me fooling around so much in the menu editor figuring out how
I wanted things to look. I cleaned it all up, removing
deleted/moved/old etc directives that were basically doing nothing.
After that, when I tar everything up (.kde, .config, .local) and expand
into new user's home, everything works.
Dunno.
I really should probably set up some XDG directories, and do a single
menu add that is merged globally, but that is a job for another day.
Thanks again.
--
Ron Peterson
Network & Systems Manager
Mount Holyoke College
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