I've done a lot of menu changes myself. I did it though through kmenuedit.
Did you try kmenuedit? Rather than moving any of the default entries, try
copying them to where you want them. The changes stick for me in Mandrake 7.1
On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> I've been trying to alter the main KDE menu but it seems to be reset
> when I login again. The KDE entries have been placed in a "default"
> menu and GNOME programs in my "personal" menu. This is with
> Linux-Mandrake 7.0, all Window managers installed. I want the GNOME
> stuff in a separate submenu, and the programs I use and know what
> they do in my personal menu. I don't want to just delete items in the
> present personal menu, the gnome menus are useful for trying things
> out and finding out what they do.
>
> I tried putting the files and folders in ~/.kde/share/applnk into a
> special Gnome subdirectory but KDE didn't let me move certain files.
> I logged in as root and it worked then, but KDE switched everything
> back to the old situation when I logged in again as user. The second
> time I used the KDE menu editor and had the basic setup I wanted, but
> when I logged in again, everything was reset. There's still a GNOME
> submenu with everything in the "personal" menu so I'm not doing
> something silly like modifying things in root and finding no changes
> in user. Logging in is slow too, it takes a minute or so longer as
> KDE resets everything to the original installation. KDE is a bit too
> much like Windows 95, thinks it knows what you want better than you
> do. Any solutions? An alternative app-launcher might be good,
> something like on-cue or Apollo for the Macintosh, if anyone is
> familiar with those.
>
> Advance thanks for any help,
> John Hendrickx
>
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