KDE menu - where is it kept?

[Timothy Murphy]

Rex Dieter wrote:

>> Where exactly is the list of items in the main F/Start menu kept?
>> 
>> I added Kontact to the menu by right-clicking on the F icon,
>> and going into Menu Editor,
>> but I would have thought there was already an entry for Kontact
>> somewhere on the system?
> 
> Kontact is in Office group, for me.

It wasn't there for me, for some reason.

>> I suppose another way to ask my question is:
>> What decides which items are on the menu?
> 
> Not exactly easy-reading:
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/

Thanks very much, I'll look at that.

> In short, your local mods *should* end up in ~/.local/menus/ somewhere.

I see the Kontact entry I added with Menu Editor is there.
(It is the only item there.)


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