trick for editing menu? FC2 - KDE

[Will Backman]

On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 15:59, Joshua Andrews wrote:
> Jonathan Rawle wrote:
> 
> >Joshua Andrews wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>I am new to FC but not new to RedHat.
> >>
> >>I just installed FC2 and found some things missing from the programs
> >>menu in KDE, Pan for one.
> >>
> >>I added it with the menu editor about 10 times and it will not show up,
> >>now I look and there is a ~/.local/ full of files pan-x.desktop!  What
> >>magic am I missing here?
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Did you retain your settings after upgrading to FC2?
> >
> >I had lots of problems (couldn't edit the menu, couldn't set file
> >associations, some submenus completely missing...) so in the end I deleted
> >my .local directory and now everything seems to work.
> >
> >It took me a while to find .local - I was looking for something in .kde, so
> >I did delete a few other things such as .kde/share/config/profilerc - you
> >might want to try that too. (Of course, copy the files somewhere else -
> >don't delete them until you're sure it works!)
> >
> >Jonathan
> >  
> >
> Thanks for the reply,
> I did a clean install so there are no old setting conflicting anywhere.
> There is something very screwy about the menu, I have yet to figure 
> exactly where it is getting its configuration since the menu editor has 
> almost no effect on it. Plus, I really don't like the seperators 
> "|Actions|", "|All Applications|", etc. and I would like to get rid of 
> them. There must be an XML file or something somewhere I can manually edit.
> 
> Anyway, at this point there are certain to be many more important issues 
> than appearances but I really really don't like not being able to change 
> the menu.
> 
> Thanks,
> Joshua
> 

http://freedesktop.org/Standards/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-0.9.4.html

Look in /etc/xdg

-- Will