Re: kde3 menu config file locations

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