Bug 170500

Summary:	KDE menu has many duplicates
Product:	[I don't know] kde	Reporter:	Fred Wells <fredcwells>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	finex, pgnet.dev+kde, rutgert, toddrme2178, zahl
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	needs_verification
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Fred Wells 2008-09-06 01:57:50 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.1.0)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Fedora RPMs

Virtually all of the default menu items appear to be duplicated.  This can be observed through both kmenuedit and kickoff search.

Comment 1 Bram Schoenmakers 2008-09-07 12:55:35 UTC

You're sure that this is a KDE bug and not a distro mess-up?

Comment 2 Fred Wells 2008-09-08 01:37:53 UTC

Doesn't appear to be a distro problem.  For example, KRDC is one example of a duplicated menu item.  However, I can only find one corresponding .desktop file from which I understand the menu is populated.  Am I missing something?

for dir in ~/.kde/share $(echo $XDG_DATA_DIRS|sed 's/:/ /g')
do
  echo "# Searching $dir ..."
  find $dir -name \*.desktop -exec grep -l Name=KRDC {} \;
done
# Searching /home/fred/.kde/share ...
# Searching /usr/share/kde-settings/kde-profile/default/share ...
# Searching /usr/local/share ...
# Searching /usr/share ...
/usr/share/applications/kde4/krdc.desktop

Comment 3 A. Spehr 2008-09-08 06:47:41 UTC

Does this happen on more than one user?

Comment 4 Fred Wells 2008-09-08 15:31:25 UTC

Happens for all users, even newly created ones.

Comment 5 FiNeX 2008-11-30 18:55:37 UTC

Can you try to update your KDE version to a more recent version? Is the problem still reproducible?

Comment 6 Fred Wells 2008-11-30 19:10:45 UTC

Looks like the problem has been fixed.

Comment 7 pgnet 2009-01-23 16:33:48 UTC

(In reply to comment #5)
> Can you try to update your KDE version to a more recent version? Is the problem
> still reproducible?

I believe I'm seeing the same problem (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468696).

Duplicates are reproducibly seen with KDE4 Kickoff menu, but NOT in Lancelot widget menu.

fyi, i've

 opensuse 11.1
 Version 4.1.96 (KDE 4.1.96 (KDE 4.2 RC1)) "release 78.1"

fully updated from the repos ...

Comment 8 Todd 2009-01-28 02:45:14 UTC

I am still having this problem in 4.2 with opensuse 11.1.

Comment 9 Rutger 2009-02-02 17:53:24 UTC

I too am still experiencing this issue after having upgraded to KDE 4.2 with OpenSuse 11.1.  Hopefully this will be resolved soon, as it is very annoying.

Comment 10 Rutger 2009-02-02 18:43:09 UTC

(In reply to comment #9)
> I too am still experiencing this issue after having upgraded to KDE 4.2 with
> OpenSuse 11.1.  Hopefully this will be resolved soon, as it is very annoying.
> 

Edit: I see this bug only in the KDE Menu Search.