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kmenuedit does not change menu on edit and save

Bug #16185 reported by Donatas Glodenis
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kdebase (Ubuntu)
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Medium
Jonathan Riddell

Bug Description

kmenuedit stopped impacting menu structure after gnome-desktop package was
installed on Kubuntu 5,4 hoary.

Removing gnome and gnome-menus did not help. menu-xdg is still installed (I will
try to remove it and report later).

The new settings do get into the ~/.config/menus/applications-kmenuedit.menu
file. However, this does not impact the menu.

I created another user on my system, and this problem does not impact that new
user (created after removal of gnome and gnome-menus). Things get saved there
and are displayed.

I guess this is Ubuntu related, but I have also posted in to KDE bugreports:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102349

See my comments at the end of that bug report.

Could this also be related to xdg-menus bug:
~/.config/menus/applications-kmenuedit.menu
?

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Donatas Glodenis (dgvirtual) wrote :

menu-xdg does not uninstall without removing the whole of KDE... Any ideas?

Maybe someone could just explain, how the KDE menu system works? Maybe I just
have to clean some config files of kmenuedit or kicker to restart the whole
system? It is really annoying, please help!

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Jonathan Riddell (jr) wrote :

Menu editing works for me. What happens when you rm -r ~/.config and ~/.local?

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Donatas Glodenis (dgvirtual) wrote :

Nothin happens. I just moved both folders from another account and logged into the old. I still cannot edit
the menu and it contains a lot of apps that are no longer installed (since I uninstalled Gnome).

I would like to be able to install Gnome without messing up my menu. does it work for you with both kde and
gnome installed?

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Laszlo Pandy (laszlok) wrote :

This is still an issue with Breezy Preview Release as of now; Sept. 17, 2005. I assume this is a kde 3.4 bug, since
other bugs.kde.org mentions other distros with the same problem.

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Laszlo Pandy (laszlok) wrote :

Found temporary solution (only tested on Kubuntu Breezy Preview release). After installing a program or editing the
menu, run "sudo kbuildsycoca". Now the menu will be updated.

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Jonathan Riddell (jr) wrote :

I suspect this is an inotify issue, same as Gnome is experiencing.

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pepster (jheled) wrote :

I have the same problem. Is there a known workaround???? Please???

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Olwin (olwin) wrote :

same problem in kubuntu 5.10 :
When I launch kmenuedit in konsole i have :
 WARNING: Could not read /home/olwin/.config/menus/applications-kmenuedit.menu

in ~/.config I have only one rep : menus, but with no files

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GreatBunzinni (greatbunzinni) wrote :

(In reply to comment #5)
> Found temporary solution (only tested on Kubuntu Breezy Preview release).
 After installing a program or editing the
> menu, run "sudo kbuildsycoca". Now the menu will be updated.

I have the exact same problem with Kubuntu 5.10 and your workaround works great
at refreshing the KMenu.

Is this bug being worked on? It is quite annoying, specially if someone tries to
install new programs all the time.

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Sarah Kowalik (hobbsee-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Does this bug still occur on kde 3.5.2, in kubuntu dapper?

Changed in kdebase:
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Rich Johnson (nixternal) wrote :

Is this bug still present in the latest Dapper packages?

If it is not, or if someone knows that this bug has been fixed by a subsequent upload, please let us know so we can close this. The last activity on this bug was over 7 months ago.

Thank you for reporting this bug.

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Sarah Kowalik (hobbsee-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

testing on edgy. bug seems to be there - i cant add other sections to the games submenu, nor programs to it.

Changed in kdebase:
status: Needs Info → Unconfirmed
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Sarah Kowalik (hobbsee-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Okay, this is some sort of config file problem. I've yet to find out which config file, and where the problem is, but it's not a problem with a new .kde/ (i deleted mine by accident)

Also, running kappfinder seems to fix it (you have to install it first) as it runs kbuildsycoca

Changed in kdebase:
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
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