Bug 233265

Summary:	KDE Menu Editor can't save changes (comes into infinite loop) in some occasions
Product:	[Applications] kmenuedit	Reporter:	Andrey Shelyapin <tester64>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	jglen490, kde, retratserif
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description Andrey Shelyapin 2010-04-04 18:19:43 UTC

Version:           unknown (using 4.4.2 (KDE 4.4.2) "release 234", KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop / openSUSE_11.2)
Compiler:          gcc
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.31.12-0.2-desktop

After several rearrangements of menu (adding/removing/renaming menus, moving/changing menu items) KDE Menu Editor refuses to save changes. The progress bar indicator infinitely loops, and no changes really happens (according to applications-kmenuedit.menu and *.desktop files modification).

After the program restart most of newly added menu items (as well as some already existing ones in related menus) are empty, and some garbage folders appear.

Restoring default system menu (of KDE Menu Editor) doesn't work.

Removing ~/.local/share/applications/* and ~/.config/menus/* doesn't help.

So as nobody posted alike bug (except for some portuguese guy about three years ago, I don't remember the bug number), it's related either to rarely factors combination, or to system corruption (I've encounted recently the situation when updating KDE from 4.3.5 to 4.4.2 led to KDE desktop crash, it dissapears after switching to Factory repository). Or probably some locale issues.

But it's a very disappointing bug.

Platform: openSUSE 11.2, KDE 4.4.2-234.1.

Comment 1 Nicolas L. 2010-04-05 09:26:31 UTC

just saw this on an other situatio, i was on kmail, wanted to tell kmail to open some files with a specific software, and it acted like you described

Comment 2 Pyroman 2010-05-10 00:22:32 UTC

Yes, same happened today.
KDE SC 4.4.3, Kubuntu 10.04 Lucid.

Comment 3 uicraor 2010-06-01 16:43:06 UTC

*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

Comment 4 John G. 2010-06-14 01:54:11 UTC

Still exists in KDE 4.4.4 (Kubuntu 10.04).

Comment 5 Pyroman 2010-09-06 19:01:30 UTC

Looks like fixed, didn't get this problem in 4.5.0 and 4.5.1.

Comment 6 Christoph Feck 2010-10-19 03:00:51 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 166792 ***