On Friday 27 May 2005 12:19, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 11:38:27AM -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
>
> > However, there are many KDE utilities that have no menu entries (e.g.,
> > kappfinder), and reinstalling still doesn't create one, even though it
> > apparently should.
>
> If you look in
>
> /usr/share/applications/kde/kappfinder.desktop
>
> You'll see I added
>
> Hidden=true
>
> which has been added to various .desktop files to keep the menu
> simple.
I've got nothing against keeping the menu simple, but there needs to be a
reasonably simple way to get these desktop files _back_ into the menu if you
want them. The reason I was looking for kappfinder was specifically to see
if it could help with this - and afaict, it can't. It's silly that I can add
X apps to the menu with kappfinder, but I can't add KDE apps!
> Actually it should be NoDisplay=true, that'll be fixed for breezy.
>
> > Then when I installed CrossOver office, I couldn't get the CrossOver menu
> > entries either.
>
> Where does it install it's .desktop files and what does the
> Categories= field say?
No categories - which I suspect is the problem, but there needs to be a way
for legacy apps to get into the menu. If I'm right about this, it would seem
that the default /etc/xdg/menus/kde-applications.menu needs to have an entry
somewhere with <INCLUDE><CATEGORY>Legacy</CATEGORY><INCLUDE>, right?
In both /etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged and
~/.config/menus/applications-merged there is a cxlegacy.menu file, which
contains:
<!DOCTYPE Menu PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD Menu 1.0//EN"
"http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/menu-spec/1.0/menu.dtd";>
<!-- File Created by CrossOver Office cxmenu -->
<Menu>
<Name>Applications</Name>
<LegacyDir>/home/derek/cxoffice/support/xdg-legacy-menus</LegacyDir></Menu>
which also looks right. The xdg-legacy-menus directory contains two
directories, which in turn contain other directories or .desktop files -
which seems to be exactly what a <LegacyDir> should have.
--
derek
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