Bug 167149

Summary: deleting .desktop files from /usr/share/applications causes several major problems with Application Menu Launcher
Product: [Unmaintained] plasma4 Reporter: Soren Harward <stharward>
Component: widget-kickoffAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: normal CC: kde, mail, ruchir.brahmbhatt
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Gentoo Packages   
OS: Linux   
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Description Soren Harward 2008-07-21 16:47:20 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.0.98)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
Compiler:          gcc 4.1.2 
OS:                Linux

When I uninstall a program (ie, unmerge it on Gentoo) and the corresponding .desktop file gets deleted from /usr/share/applications, the Application Launcher Menu (the traditional view, not the new one) starts having several major problems:

1) The application icon doesn't get removed from the menu
2) Most other applications are now un-launchable.  Clicking on their icons does nothing.
3a) If the menu directory is now empty (eg, if I just removed the last entry in "Games"), the directory doesn't get removed, and ...
3b) ... the other directories are now mis-aligned.  Eg, hovering over the "Multimedia" directory shows the contents of the "Office" directory (the one immediately below it).  Hovering over the removed directory (eg, "Games") shows another copy of the root directory.

Re-running kbuildsycoca4 doesn't update the menu.  Only logging out and logging back in fixes these menu problems.
Comment 1 Sebastian Sauer 2008-11-30 16:35:47 UTC 
Hi Soren,

is this still reproducable for you with KDE 4.1.3 or newer (e.g. 4.2 beta 1)? iirc there was such a bug in 4.1.0 but it was fixed later. Thanks for your feedback.
Comment 2 Nicolas L. 2009-03-01 01:58:35 UTC 
i can't reproduce on kde 4.2.0 ( neither on kde 4.1.4 )
Comment 3 Jaime Torres 2009-04-25 11:46:06 UTC 
Can not reproduce on kde 4.2.70.
Comment 4 Ruchir Brahmbhatt 2009-05-01 13:50:36 UTC 
I also can't reproduce on trunk.