Re: kde3 menu config file locations

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 ...

Greetings,
Torsten

> I'm using kde 3.2.2 from Debian sarge.