Bug 106858 - kmenuedit and real menu do not match
Summary: kmenuedit and real menu do not match
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 90300
Alias: None
Product: kmenuedit
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 0.7
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Unassigned bugs mailing-list
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Reported: 2005-06-05 20:40 UTC by Matthias Pospiech
Modified: 2009-11-23 15:34 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Matthias Pospiech 2005-06-05 20:40:09 UTC 
Version:           0.7 (using KDE 3.4.1 Level "a" , SUSE 9.3 UNSUPPORTED)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.5 20050117 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.11.4-20a-default

My Suse KDE Menu does not match with the entrys in kmenuedit. kmenuedit shows folders and subfolders, but many applications in the real menu are not within any subfolder, and some are shown twice. 

Vey unpleasent, because the Suse Menu is a real mess anyway.

Matthias
Comment 1 Waldo Bastian 2005-06-09 19:34:12 UTC 
Coolo: This seems specific to the suse menu changes. I thought Adrian had fixed those duplicate entries though.
Comment 2 Stephan Kulow 2005-06-10 12:35:13 UTC 
there are still some bugs to sort out, yes. But as you, I was under the impression the duplicated entries are history
Comment 3 Matthias Pospiech 2005-06-10 14:45:05 UTC 
If I can be with any help with my menu configuration files please tell me what to supply. (I have actually no idea where the menu is stored and was not able to find it out)

Matthias
Comment 4 Graham P Davis 2005-07-15 09:36:03 UTC 
I've got the same problem with SUSE 9.3. The SUSE menu bears little relationship with that which is used in Kmenuedit. For instance, the first three folders - Applications, Development, and Edutainment - do not appear on the SUSE menu. I had a similar problem with 9.2, but this was cured with a KDE upgrade.

I'd also like to know where the files are stored. I've found waht appear to be the ones used to store changes and history (.config/menus/applications-kmenuedit.menu, .kde/share/config/kmenueditrc) but not the master file.

Graham
Comment 5 Graham P Davis 2005-07-17 08:16:15 UTC 
I raised this problem on novell.support.suse.linux.professional and Tinkerbelle pointed out that the SUSE menu ignores any empty folders. This fully explained the differences between the SUSE and kmenuedit menus. 

I've also added an application using kmenuedit and it appeared in the SUSE menu. As the application, GnuCash, was the only item in the "Financial" menu, the application itself did not appear in the SUSE menu but "Financial" did appear and clicking on it started GnuCash. I've seen that this is consistent with how the SUSE menu works when a folder only contains one application.

I'm now satisfied that kmenuedit is working.

Graham
Comment 6 Matthias Pospiech 2005-07-17 10:16:43 UTC 
>As the application, GnuCash, was the only item in the "Financial" menu, the >application itself did not appear in the SUSE menu but "Financial" did appear >and clicking on it started GnuCash.

This means that if there is only one item in the submenu, the submenu is not shown and the application is listed in the main menu with the name of the submenu? Very bad idea in terms of usuability.
I prefer the Mandrake menu structure because it is much more logical (every application is in a submenu even if there is only one item in the submenu).

Even if this behaviour is now clear, I still have items twice in my menu. For example "Musicbox" = Juk and "Sequenzer" = Rosengarden. Both are the only items in the submenus musicbox and sequencer.

Matthias
Comment 7 Will Stephenson 2009-11-23 15:34:16 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 90300 ***