Bug 416104

Summary: Store menu hierarchy in .desktop file
Product: [Applications] kmenuedit Reporter: leftcrane <leftcrane>
Component: generalAssignee: Unassigned bugs <unassigned-bugs-null>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: justin.zobel
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.17.5   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
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Description leftcrane 2020-01-11 00:23:36 UTC
Currently, the hierarchy is are stored in ~/.config/menus/applications-kmenuedit.menu. This is both opaque, not portable, and may cause unpredictable behavior as the same configuration is stored in two places.

Could the caterogories and just be written to actual desktop files instead?