Bug 303339

Summary:	kde takes too long to update menus
Product:	[I don't know] kde	Reporter:	Simple <simplew8>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	faure, nate, notuxius, oldie
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
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Description Simple 2012-07-11 00:29:45 UTC

When for example i change a category in a /usr/share/applications/kde/kwrite.desktop  file and then click to save it, it takes more than 10 seconds to have the entry updated in kde panel menu (kmenu).

I have performed this same test in a gnome file gedit.desktop, and after clicking in save, the update in the menus was immediate.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
explained in details

Expected Results:  
After saving the .desktop file, it should update kmenu immediately and not have to wait about 10 seconds

Comment 1 Gernot Wieprecht 2012-10-14 11:56:58 UTC

Why don't you use the menu editor? The changes are shown in the menu immediately after saving.

Comment 2 Simple 2012-10-14 16:40:35 UTC

This has nothing to do with menu editor, its related to how kde updates the menu entries,its related to how things were designed to run, if i remember correctly, in gnome the changes are done imediatly, but in kde kbuildsycoca takes too long to do it.

Comment 3 David Faure 2015-09-19 23:02:38 UTC

Can you re-test with Plasma5 and KDE Frameworks >= 5.15? I made many many changes to ksycoca, hopefully it should be better now. On my system it takes 1-2s for a sycoca update, but of course your testcase and your system could be different.

Comment 4 Alexander Mentyu 2018-03-25 17:36:59 UTC

Menu entries are updating fast in:

Plasma: 5.12.3
Apps: 17.12.3
Frameworks: 5.44.0
Qt: 5.10.1
Kernel: 4.14.27-1-MANJARO
OS: Netrunner Rolling

Comment 5 Nate Graham 2020-09-29 03:14:09 UTC

Yup.