Lost KDE menus

[Tomer Okavi]

Simon Perreault wrote:

>On January 8, 2004 13:50, Tomer Okavi wrote:
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>>Its system-wide, is there any way to restore the menus to default?
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>This is very strange; I had expected otherwise. There should be a directory 
>/usr/share/applications full of .desktop files. That's where KDE looks for 
>its menu. Ther is also /usr/share/applnk-redhat, but I don't really know how 
>Red Hat patched kdelibs for it to support it.
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as far as i can tell all of the *.desktop files are in 
/usr/share/applications,
so problem is /usr/share/applnk-redhat not pointing to the right one's

here's a dir listing of the directories involved:
root at bandit /usr/share#ls -al applnk-redhat/
total 72
drwxr-xr-x   18 desktop  desktop      4096 Jan  8 20:32 .
drwxr-xr-x    3 desktop  desktop      4096 Jan  1 19:50 ..
drwxr-xr-x    3 desktop  desktop      4096 Jan  8 20:32 Accessories
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Jan  3 00:06 CrossOver
lrwxrwxrwx    1 desktop  desktop        52 Jan  8 20:32 .directory -> 
/usr/share/desktop-menu-files/Applications.directory
drwxr-xr-x    3 desktop  desktop      4096 Jan  8 20:32 Documentation
drwxr-xr-x    3 desktop  desktop      4096 Jan  8 20:32 Games
drwxr-xr-x    3 desktop  desktop      4096 Jan  8 20:32 Graphics
drwxr-xr-x    2 desktop  desktop      4096 Jan  8 20:32 .hidden
drwxr-xr-x    3 desktop  desktop      4096 Jan  8 21:12 Internet
drwxr-xr-x    3 desktop  desktop      4096 Jan  8 20:32 Multimedia
drwxr-xr-x    3 desktop  desktop      4096 Jan  8 20:32 Office
drwxr-xr-x    2 desktop  desktop      4096 Jan  8 20:32 Other
drwxr-xr-x    3 desktop  desktop      4096 Jan  8 20:32 Preferences
drwxr-xr-x    3 desktop  desktop      4096 Jan  8 20:32 Programming
drwxr-xr-x   18 desktop  desktop      4096 Jan  8 20:32 Settings
drwxr-xr-x    3 desktop  desktop      4096 Jan  8 20:32 System
drwxr-xr-x    4 desktop  desktop      4096 Jan  8 20:32 System Settings
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Jan  1 20:23 Windows Applications
root at bandit /usr/share#ls -al applnk-redhat/Internet/
total 12
drwxr-xr-x    3 desktop  desktop      4096 Jan  8 21:12 .
drwxr-xr-x   18 desktop  desktop      4096 Jan  8 20:32 ..
lrwxrwxrwx    1 desktop  desktop        48 Jan  8 20:32 .directory -> 
/usr/share/desktop-menu-files/Internet.directory
lrwxrwxrwx    1 desktop  desktop        36 Jan  8 20:32 gaim.desktop -> 
/usr/share/applications/gaim.desktop
drwxr-xr-x    2 desktop  desktop      4096 Jan  8 20:32 More Internet
lrwxrwxrwx    1 desktop  desktop        42 Jan  8 20:32 
redhat-web.desktop -> /usr/share/applications/redhat-web.desktop
root at bandit /usr/share#ls -al applnk-redhat/Internet/More\ Internet/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x    2 desktop  desktop      4096 Jan  8 20:32 .
drwxr-xr-x    3 desktop  desktop      4096 Jan  8 21:12 ..
lrwxrwxrwx    1 desktop  desktop        53 Jan  8 20:32 .directory -> 
/usr/share/desktop-menu-files/Internet-More.directory
lrwxrwxrwx    1 desktop  desktop        47 Jan  8 20:32 
mozilla-compose.desktop -> /usr/share/applications/mozilla-compose.desktop
lrwxrwxrwx    1 desktop  desktop        44 Jan  8 20:32 
mozilla-mail.desktop -> /usr/share/applications/mozilla-mail.desktop

Thanks

Tomer