Most items in my menu have disapeared

[Guy Fraser]

On Sat, 2005-11-06 at 11:14 +0200, Andy Pieters wrote:
> On Saturday 11 June 2005 06:59, RoboticGolem wrote:
> > had same problem, this seemed to work
> >
> > to make kde menu editor work delete ~/.config and ~/.local, then log
> > out and log back in.
> 
> When giving an advice like that, you should put in a disclaimer.  Deleting the 
> ~/.config directory will void all of your kde settings!  Kmail accounts, 
> filters, whole addressbooks, calendars and everything.
> 
> Instead of following this dangerous procedure, try moving the ~./config to 
> ~./oldconfig and ~/.local to ~./oldlocal
> 
> Then you can restore bit by bit files from the backup to the current copy and 
> identify the problem maker.  All that without losing all of your settings and 
> data.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Andy
> 
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I moved the files to dot.config and dot.local and attempted to 
log out then back in, but it appears that the .ICEauthority 
file was messed up. After moving .ICEauthority to dot.ICEauthority
I was able to log in and all the menus appear to be correct.

If anyone is interested, I have supplied a recursive unified diff 
of the dot.config and dot.local changes below.

Thank you for your assistance.

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$ diff -ruN dot.config .config
diff -ruN dot.config/menus/applications-
kmenuedit.menu .config/menus/applications-kmenuedit.menu
--- dot.config/menus/applications-kmenuedit.menu        2004-12-15
10:04:16.000000000 -0700
+++ .config/menus/applications-kmenuedit.menu   1969-12-31
17:00:00.000000000 -0700
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-<!DOCTYPE Menu PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD Menu 1.0//EN"
"http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/menu-spec/1.0/menu.dtd">
-<Menu>
- <Menu>
-  <Name>Internet</Name>
-  <Layout>
-   <Merge type="files" />
-   <Filename>redhat-evolution.desktop</Filename>
-   <Filename>epiphany.desktop</Filename>
-   <Filename>net-ethereal.desktop</Filename>
-   <Filename>mozilla-firefox.desktop</Filename>
-   <Filename>net-gftp.desktop</Filename>
-   <Filename>gaim.desktop</Filename>
-   <Filename>kde-kget.desktop</Filename>
-   <Filename>kde-KMail.desktop</Filename>
-   <Filename>kde-knewsticker-standalone.desktop</Filename>
-   <Filename>kde-KNode.desktop</Filename>
-   <Filename>kde-konqbrowser.desktop</Filename>
-   <Filename>kde-kopete.desktop</Filename>
-   <Filename>kde-KOrn.desktop</Filename>
-   <Filename>kde-Kppp.desktop</Filename>
-   <Filename>kde-kppplogview.desktop</Filename>
-   <Filename>kde-ksirc.desktop</Filename>
-   <Filename>kde-kwifimanager.desktop</Filename>
-   <Filename>kde-krdc.desktop</Filename>
-   <Filename>Mozilla (Web Browser).desktop</Filename>
-   <Filename>tsclient.desktop</Filename>
-   <Filename>mozilla-thunderbird.desktop</Filename>
-   <Filename>redhat-gnomemeeting.desktop</Filename>
-  </Layout>
-  <Include>
-   <Filename>Mozilla (Web Browser).desktop</Filename>
-  </Include>
- </Menu>
-</Menu>

----next----

$ diff -ruN dot.local .local
diff -ruN
dot.local/share/applications/defaults.list .local/share/applications/defaults.list
--- dot.local/share/applications/defaults.list  2004-12-14
16:41:40.000000000 -0700
+++ .local/share/applications/defaults.list     1969-12-31
17:00:00.000000000 -0700
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-[Default Applications]
-audio/x-mp3=redhat-audio-player.desktop
diff -ruN
dot.local/share/applications/gmplayer.desktop .local/share/applications/gmplayer.desktop
--- dot.local/share/applications/gmplayer.desktop       2005-01-11
15:21:47.000000000 -0700
+++ .local/share/applications/gmplayer.desktop  1969-12-31
17:00:00.000000000 -0700
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-[Desktop Entry]
-Encoding=UTF-8
-Name=gmplayer
-MimeType=video/x-ms-asf;
-Exec=gmplayer
-Type=Application
-Terminal=false
-NoDisplay=true
diff -ruN
dot.local/share/applications/gnumeric.desktop .local/share/applications/gnumeric.desktop
--- dot.local/share/applications/gnumeric.desktop       2005-03-22
11:20:58.000000000 -0700
+++ .local/share/applications/gnumeric.desktop  1969-12-31
17:00:00.000000000 -0700
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-[Desktop Entry]
-Encoding=UTF-8
-Name=gnumeric
-MimeType=application/x-ole-storage;
-Exec=gnumeric
-Type=Application
-Terminal=false
-NoDisplay=true
diff -ruN
dot.local/share/applications/gqview1.desktop .local/share/applications/gqview1.desktop
--- dot.local/share/applications/gqview1.desktop        2005-06-06
17:17:50.000000000 -0600
+++ .local/share/applications/gqview1.desktop   1969-12-31
17:00:00.000000000 -0700
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-[Desktop Entry]
-Encoding=UTF-8
-Name=gqview
-MimeType=image/gif;
-Exec=gqview
-Type=Application
-Terminal=false
-NoDisplay=true
diff -ruN
dot.local/share/applications/gqview.desktop .local/share/applications/gqview.desktop
--- dot.local/share/applications/gqview.desktop 2005-01-07
17:11:13.000000000 -0700
+++ .local/share/applications/gqview.desktop    1969-12-31
17:00:00.000000000 -0700
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-[Desktop Entry]
-Encoding=UTF-8
-Name=gqview
-MimeType=image/jpeg;
-Exec=gqview
-Type=Application
-Terminal=false
-NoDisplay=true
diff -ruN
dot.local/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache .local/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache
--- dot.local/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache 2005-06-06
17:17:50.000000000 -0600
+++ .local/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache    1969-12-31
17:00:00.000000000 -0700
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-[MIME Cache]
-image/jpeg=gqview.desktop
-video/x-ms-asf=nedit1.desktop;gmplayer.desktop;
-image/gif=gqview1.desktop
-application/x-ole-storage=gnumeric.desktop
-audio/x-ms-asx=nedit.desktop
diff -ruN dot.local/share/applications/Mozilla (Web
Browser).desktop .local/share/applications/Mozilla (Web Browser).desktop
--- dot.local/share/applications/Mozilla (Web Browser).desktop
2004-12-15 10:04:16.000000000 -0700
+++ .local/share/applications/Mozilla (Web Browser).desktop
1969-12-31 17:00:00.000000000 -0700
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-[Desktop Entry]
-Comment=
-Exec=mozilla
-GenericName=
-Icon=mozilla_m
-Name=Mozilla (Web Browser)
-Path=
-StartupNotify=true
-Terminal=0
-TerminalOptions=
-Type=Application
-X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
-X-KDE-Username=
diff -ruN
dot.local/share/applications/nedit1.desktop .local/share/applications/nedit1.desktop
--- dot.local/share/applications/nedit1.desktop 2005-05-16
13:45:21.000000000 -0600
+++ .local/share/applications/nedit1.desktop    1969-12-31
17:00:00.000000000 -0700
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-[Desktop Entry]
-Encoding=UTF-8
-Name=nedit
-MimeType=video/x-ms-asf;
-Exec=nedit
-Type=Application
-Terminal=false
-NoDisplay=true
diff -ruN
dot.local/share/applications/nedit.desktop .local/share/applications/nedit.desktop
--- dot.local/share/applications/nedit.desktop  2005-04-12
12:50:54.000000000 -0600
+++ .local/share/applications/nedit.desktop     1969-12-31
17:00:00.000000000 -0700
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-[Desktop Entry]
-Encoding=UTF-8
-Name=nedit
-MimeType=audio/x-ms-asx;
-Exec=nedit
-Type=Application
-Terminal=false
-NoDisplay=true

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