kmenuedit is there, you can run it from konsole. It's probably disabled for a
purpose, don't waste your time editing the kmenu, your changes won't be
saved, the new menu package included with 7.1 now synronizes all menu's from
a common place, and it's not the kde menu. If you change any menu in any WM
and reboot your computer your changes will be lost.
read /usr/doc/menu-[something]
you must edit your menu's in the /etc/menu directory by creating a file for
each application you want to add to the menu.
here's mine for licq: ("licq" is the filename)
?package(local.licq):needs=x11 section="Networking/ICQ" title="LICQ"
command="licq" icon="/usr/share/icons/icq.xpm"
and for gcombust: (gcombust is the filename here)
?package(gcombust):needs=x11 section="Applications/Archiving/Cd burning"
title="gcombust" command="kdesu -c gcombust"
icon=/usr/share/icons/cdwriter_unmount.xpm
The filename doesn't matter, the package does. If the package you installed
is not an RPM, as is the case of my licq installation you must have the word
"local" in your package name as I do. If not when menu updates your menu's it
will look in the rpm database and see that licq is not installed, and will
remove it from your menu. Gcombust is installed as an rpm, so the package
name should be the real package/program name.
for more info - "man menufile"
Joel Stanley wrote:
> Is it just me, or is the standard installation of KDE for MDK 7.1 a tad
> broken? I installed 7.1 on a friend's computer who is pretty new to Linux
> and I'm in the midst of trying to show him how to add icons to the KDE
> panel...but the damn kmenuedit program doesn't work if I run it from the
> command line (it runs, but there's no way to add menu items), and for some
> reason KDE thinks that it is not installed when invoked from the KDE menu
> (it literally pops up a dialog box saying that it's not installed :)
>
> In order to add an item to the panel, the program or whatever has to have
> a listing in the application menu as far as I can tell, and without the
> menu editor, I had to drop into a shell and set up a .kdelnk file in
> /usr/share/applnks/...etc...far too much work.
>
> Any ideas? I checked on the webpage and didn't see anything about KDE
> issues and was MandrakeUpdate didn't find anything kde-related.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> -j
>
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