Bug 99420

Summary: Kmenu Items Disappear after logout
Product: [Applications] kmenuedit Reporter: Aaron Dahlstrom <aarond>
Component: generalAssignee: Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: normal CC: allenwjones, cando0815, castarco, chambon.pascal, dhbmarcos, justin.zobel, kde-bugs, megavolt17, niklas.subscriptions, peter.mueller_1955, r.deen, rizzitello, twooten, xkxkxkxk, yo_lucyfer
Priority: NOR    
Version: 0.5   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Aaron Dahlstrom 2005-02-15 04:46:35 UTC
Version:           0.5 (using KDE 3.2.3,  (3.1))
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.4 (Debian 1:3.3.4-7)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.7

I installed firefox into my home folder and went to kedit to add it to the kmenu, the icon shows up and is functional but when I log out and log back in the icon is gone, I dont think I am adding it incorrectly--->menu editor-->New Item-->name-->command-->/home/aarond/firefox-installer/firefox-->and it adds it, but then it disappears.
Comment 1 James H. Olson 2005-03-14 00:37:03 UTC
I noticed that xmms in the "Sound and Video" submenu appears in the K menu without an icon. After checking the xmms homepage, I realized that XMMS does not come with an icon. I drew a 48x48 icon and saved it to /opt/media/icons. Using kmenuedit v0.6, I edited the menu item for xmms and added my icon. At this point the K menu inside kmenuedit showed my icon. I saved my changes and quit. After kmenuedit exited, I started kmenuedit again. My icon is now gone from the sample menu. The icon file in /opt is still there. It appears kmenuedit is not actually saving the edits.

The icon disappears no matter if I am logged in as a regular user or as root.

[root@tampa ~]# kmenuedit -v
Qt: 3.3.3
KDE: 3.3.0-5 Red Hat
KDE Menu Editor: 0.6
Comment 2 Will Stephenson 2009-11-23 15:14:48 UTC
*** Bug 147688 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Will Stephenson 2009-11-23 15:50:29 UTC
*** Bug 116099 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Will Stephenson 2009-11-23 15:51:34 UTC
*** Bug 117474 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Will Stephenson 2009-11-23 15:53:59 UTC
*** Bug 121978 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Will Stephenson 2009-11-23 15:56:39 UTC
*** Bug 124468 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Will Stephenson 2009-11-23 16:35:32 UTC
*** Bug 142512 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Will Stephenson 2009-11-23 16:51:56 UTC
*** Bug 149308 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 Will Stephenson 2009-11-23 17:15:13 UTC
*** Bug 112573 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 10 Will Stephenson 2009-11-23 17:22:38 UTC
*** Bug 160879 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 11 Will Stephenson 2009-11-23 17:29:28 UTC
*** Bug 174809 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 12 Will Stephenson 2009-11-23 17:35:48 UTC
*** Bug 182336 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 13 p 2009-12-09 18:51:13 UTC
Hi,

the bug report I have openend in 2006 was closed with the remark that it is a duplicate of this bug. "Lately" I have been patient with this bug because I told myself "hey the guys are really busy getting KDE 4 onto the road". Now I have switched to KDE 4.3.4 and the bug is still there.....

This report here has been opened almost 5 YEARS ago!!! This must be a (bad) joke. A basic feature not working for almost 5 years. Please prove me wrong and get this fixed. Show that open source works and that there is a community.

I cannot develop, but I am willing to spend as much time with testing as necessary.

so everyone who reads this please vote for this bug, there aren't much votes on it - maybe people gave up and swichted to fvwm?

Is there anyone who can tell me where the menu entries are saved to and read from?

Secondly how to raise the severity of this bug?
Comment 14 Christian Boltz 2010-10-25 20:21:59 UTC
A somewhat similar bug (bug 227836) has been fixed in KDE 4.4.4 (maybe 4.4.3, didn't test that). 

Do you still see the bug described here in KDE 4.4.4 or newer?
Comment 15 Pascal Chambon 2010-10-25 20:31:17 UTC
Sorry, I have no KDE system at the moment, but the bug fixed seems to correspond indeed.
Comment 16 Chris Rizzitello 2011-10-26 13:05:33 UTC
This Bug is affecting me on kde 4.7.2!

make a menu entry then save the menu, the entry doesn't show in the menu at all. after saving it shows updating system dialog, but the entry is not in the menu. if you open the menu editor the entry will be gone. i also edited a menu entry of an installed program and after saving the menu editor the entry was in my menu (with modified parts) but once again after a log out/ login the modified entry is removed.
Comment 17 Allen W. Jones 2016-06-24 20:13:00 UTC
Kubuntu 16.04
KDE Plasma Version 5.5.5
Qt Version 5.5.1
Kernel Version 4.4.0-24-generic
OS Type 64-bit


Icon Bug in kmenuedit is still present.
Comment 18 Justin Zobel 2020-11-08 05:50:16 UTC
I've just tested this on Plasma from git master and kmenuedit changes the icon and it is persisting after a reboot.

Can you please confirm if this issue can be resolved or if the issue is still occurring for you.
Comment 19 Bug Janitor Service 2020-11-23 04:33:45 UTC
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Comment 20 Bug Janitor Service 2020-12-08 04:34:08 UTC
This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least
30 days. The bug is now closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME
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