retitle 270702 Ignores .desktop file names starting with letter k reassign 270702 kdebase thanks
> > On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 08:57:17PM +0100, Richard Lamont wrote: > > > Usually, when installing a desktop application package, the KDE > > > menus get updated. This didn't happen with kino. The menu updating > > > tool can't find it either. This turns out to be a bug in KDE. Kino is a gtk application, despite its name starting with k. It installs a file /usr/share/applications/kino.desktop, but no entry turns up in the KDE menu. After pulling out a substantial part of my hair over this issue, I found out that renaming the file to, say, gino.desktop makes the menu entry appear. Along the same line, renaming an arbitrary file in that directory to something starting with letter k makes the respective menu entry disappear in KDE. It seems that most of the other k* executables indeed are KDE applications, and install their .desktop files in /usr/share/applications/kde/ instead[1]. I assume that's why this bug wasn't noticed earlier. Regards, Daniel. [1] kanatest, kazehakase, gtk2-engines-gtk-qt, kipina being the other exceptions I found in main.