kde application menu, multiple users? [closed]

k1ll1nt1m3 · Apprentice Joined: 02 Jun 2004 Posts: 196

I have installed some applications and kde menu update did not add them to the menu list. I manually added them in one user profile. Is there anyway I can copy that menu to other users? I have tried copying my .kde3.4 and .config but those are not the configs for the menu. Thanks

gentsquash · Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 4:17 am Post subject:

On my system, file

k1ll1nt1m3 · Apprentice Joined: 02 Jun 2004 Posts: 196

I thought it would do it as well.

gentsquash · Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 1:45 am Post subject:

What failed? If user tux runs KDE, then modifies the menu using
K -> Settings -> Menu Editor and then uses

k1ll1nt1m3 · Apprentice Joined: 02 Jun 2004 Posts: 196

Im a little lost. I have edited my menu to add the programs that menu update missed. I am trying not to open every profile and edit their menus. I was wondering if there was a way to copy a menu I have already edited to other profiles.

I have copied my applications-kmenuedit.menu and replaced theirs with mine. Even after changing the owner and stuff, it doesnt change their menus. :cry:

jstead1 · Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 3:10 am Post subject:

I believe kde is using the freedesktop standard for menus now (at least partially)
The standard looks in various places for .desktop files.

Information in the .desktop files, along with an xml file determines where the menu item gets listed.

For instance an item may be shown only in Gnome, only in KDE, or both.

In any case, currently, for KDE 3.4, the directory for .desktop files for KDE apps is:
/usr/kde/3.4/share/applications/kde
for apps in general, it is:
/usr/share/applications

For specific users the .desktop files go in
~/.local/share/applications

If there is a new directory in the menu for a user it goes in:
~/.local/share/desktop-directories

Finally modifications to the xml (it is kind of hierarchical) go in:
~/.config/menus/applications-kmenuedit.menu

So in order to transfer one users local changes to the menu, to another user you must copy the .desktop file, possibly a .directory file, and portions of the xml from ~/.config/menus/applications-kmenuedit.menu

If you want the menu item to be used for all users, it would be easier just to drop it into /usr/share/applications
If it has the right info, it will show up in the appropriate directory in the menu. If not, I think it shows up in the lost and found folder in the menu.

More info on the freedesktop standard for menus can be found here
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jim

k1ll1nt1m3 · Apprentice Joined: 02 Jun 2004 Posts: 196

Thank you!!! That was it. I just copied my ~/.config/menu/applications-kmenuedit.menu and the ~/.local/shared/applications.

Looks like it got most of the applications. Thanks again.

k1ll1nt1m3 · Apprentice Joined: 02 Jun 2004 Posts: 196

Seems KDE has changed or I am doing some thing wrong. I have tried the above and had no luck. An ideas on how to do this now? Or is there a way to share one config between all users?

k1ll1nt1m3 · Apprentice Joined: 02 Jun 2004 Posts: 196

I must have missed something. I tired it again and it worked fine. Maybe I missed some permissions.