Forwarded to list...Sorry. :) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Brad Alexander <stor...@gmail.com> Date: Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 7:00 AM Subject: Re: kde menu: How to restore/manipulate? To: Martin Steigerwald <mar...@lichtvoll.de>
As it turned out, there was corruption in /etc/xdg/menus/kde4-applications.menu. I replaced it with one from my laptop, and viola... kmenuedit works and I have all of my categories back... Thanks, --b On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 5:19 AM, Martin Steigerwald <mar...@lichtvoll.de>wrote: > Am Sunday 06 March 2011 schrieb Brad Alexander: > > Okay, I got some feedback from the kde guys on irc. Apparently, the > > menu system is several hundred files scattered all over the > > filesystem, though user-specific settings are in ~/.local and > > ~/.config. The best way to "fix" it is to use kmenuedit. In my case, > > this will probably be a couple of hours of work...Apparently, even > > though the menus are "wrong," kde does not see them as "broken." > > Has the crossover installation ran with root privileges? If not, the > changes it made should be restricted to somewhere in the home directory? > Then you could just undo the changes by removing or better renaming parts > of ~/.local or ~/.config unless you did other big changes. > > How about .local/share/applications or .config/menus/applications- > kmenuedit.menu? Maybe thats also somewhere documented on > http://userbase.kde.org oder http://freedesktop.org? > > -- > Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de > GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 >
