On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 09:35:02AM +0200, Jesús Guerrero wrote: >> I think so. I don't have GNOME / KDE on my system (just Fvwm). But the >> Gtk / KDE programs seem to put their ".desktop" files in >> /usr/share/applications. (Doing "locate .desktop" showed mainly files in >> /usr/share/applications. However there were a few in some service >> directory corresponding to plugins). > > Note that some of them might be distro dependant. KDE uses a variable to keep > track of it's base path, so, maybe it's worth to check that path's and then > add the other part of the path to them, because some distros might install > kde to a different locations (i.e. /usr vs. /opt or even the users home). > > That variable is $KDEDIRS.
Yep, you're right. I checked on a system with KDE programs, and I found a whole bunch of .desktop files in /usr/kde/3.5/share/applications/. The menu file /usr/kde/3.5/etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu contained all the info I needed to generate complete menus though, GI -- Where there's a will there are five hundred relatives.
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