Version: (using KDE 4.2.2) Installed from: Ubuntu Packages Dragging an entry with the mouse shouldn't copy but move the entry. Shift+mouse might be suitable for copying, which IMHO isn't used very often in a menu editor. Default should be moving because it is IMHO more likely to sort entries than to duplicate them somewhere. Default KDE behaviour is: dragging a file/an entry and on dropping it the user is being asked what to do: move or copy. This behaviour also should be used in the menu editor. Please bear in mind that some people need one-hand moving (and copying) of entries/files so the standard KDE behaviour of asking on dropping is the most comfortable and sane behaviour you can provide.
This is reported in form of bug in bug 153172 Thanks
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 153172 ***