Version: (using KDE 4.3.0) OS: Linux Installed from: Debian testing/unstable Packages I have a couple of *.desktop files in ~/.local/share/applications/ that are supposed to show up in the k-menu. Usually this works, but it fails terribly when the files are in a subdirectory that is symlinked into ~/.local/share/applications. In that case kbuildsycoca4 picks up all files correctly and displays them in the k-menu in the correct submenus. However when clicking on one of the menu entries *nothing* happens. Not even an error message. Example: Create a directory ~/games/ and add a .desktop file ~/games/foo.sh that starts a program. Now go to ~/.local/share/applications/ and do a ln -s ~/games -> after starting kbuildsyscoca4 manually, the foo.sh entry is in the menu. clicking it has no effect at all. not even an error message! These may actually be two problems: (1) symlinked directories are traversed, but entries are entirely useless and (2) if launching the application failes, no error message or feedback of any kind is given to the user.