Problem editing Kde menu

Raúl Moratalla raul.moratalla at ono.com
Mon May 24 13:03:10 UTC 2004


Raúl Moratalla escribió:

> Jonathan Rawle escribió:
>
>> Raúl Moratalla wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> Hi everybody!
>>> I have installed Fedora Core 2 and when I edit the elements (insert or
>>> delete one) of kmenu and I save the changes I don't see any
>>> modification, but if I change the icon of an element and save it I can
>>> see the changes ???
>>> Anyone knows how to solve this? I have installed again redhat-menus
>>> package, but the problem still persist.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Did you retain your KDE settings when you installed Fedora Core 2?
>>
>> I had this problem, and I assumed it was my existing KDE settings. But I
>> simply couldn't find which settings in the .kde directory were 
>> causing the
>> problem.
>>
>> Eventually I discovered that the settings aren't kept in .kde - later
>> versions of KDE conform to the freedesktop.org specification. I can't
>> remember exactly what I did - the directory in question is either 
>> .local or
>> .config
>> Check for these two directories. One of them will have an XML file 
>> defining
>> the kmenu. Delete this (from outside KDE) and next time you log in, your
>> menus will be reset to the default Fedora menus. kmenuedit will then
>> function correctly.
>>
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>>
>>
>>  
>>
> Thanks a lot Jonathan, I deleted both directories and now I can edit 
> the menu :)
>
> Regards,
>
> Raúl
>
>
I know what is the problem and I have tested it: I change the icon theme 
in gnome (used crystal for gnome that I downloaded) and when I run kde 
my menu has changed and I can't edit the elements and save the changes, 
except the icon of the element. It's very strange....





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