On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Kevin, > Thanks for the speedy reply > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Kevin Krammer <kram...@kde.org> wrote: >> Hi Mark., >> > >> In a KDE session you can easily retrieve the full list search paths for >> .desktop files using the following command: >> >> kde4-config --path xdgdata-apps >> >> If you son's system is missing the entry for Virtual Box then either did the >> .desktop file not get installed or not into one of the search locations, or >> if >> it is installed, the installation failed to trigger the update mechanism. >> > > With your help I now see that my son's system has the same > virtualbox.desktop file that's on the other systems: > > rocky ~ # cat /usr/share/applications/virtualbox.desktop > [Desktop Entry] > Name=Oracle xVM VirtualBox > Type=Application > Comment=Run several virtual systems on a single host computer > Exec=VirtualBox > TryExec=VirtualBox > Icon=virtualbox > Categories=System;Emulator; > rocky ~ # > > As a layman it's not clear to me whether the > "Categories=System;Emulator;" say put this in System, or put it in > System->Emulator but it's not anywhere I can find so it appears that > the install 'failed to trigger the update mechanism'. > >> In the latter case you can run that manually: >> >> kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental >> > > Unfortunately when I attempt this it fails as it appears the document > it's trying to load is empty/corrupted > > mark@rocky ~ $ kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental > kbuildsycoca4 running... > kbuildsycoca4(3126) VFolderMenu::loadDoc: Parse error in > "/home/mark/.config/menus/applications-merged/xdg-desktop-menu-dummy.menu" > , line 1 , col 1 : "unexpected end of file" > kbuildsycoca4(3126) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry > text/html in "/home/mark/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list" is > not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon). > mark@rocky ~ $ cat > /home/mark/.config/menus/applications-merged/xdg-desktop-menu-dummy.menu > mark@rocky ~ $ > > Now, as a second test I logged in as my son and looked in his menus. > The icon isn't there but in his account the kbuildsycoco4 command > didn't fail, but it also didn't appear to create the icon: > > matt@rocky ~ $ kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental > kbuildsycoca4 running... > matt@rocky ~ $ > > To verify this is there a file in my account that holds the icon info > that I can look at? (Not edit, just look at.) > > Anyway, it's still apparently not working.
So for kicks I tried deleting the file that it was complaining about. Now I get further but still have messages: mark@rocky ~/.config/menus/applications-merged $ ls -la total 12 drwx------ 2 mark mark 4096 Mar 19 18:06 . drwx------ 3 mark mark 4096 Mar 19 18:06 .. -rw------- 1 mark mark 450 Mar 19 18:06 user-chrome-apps.menu -rw------- 1 mark mark 0 Mar 19 18:06 xdg-desktop-menu-dummy.menu mark@rocky ~/.config/menus/applications-merged $ rm xdg-desktop-menu-dummy.menu mark@rocky ~/.config/menus/applications-merged $ kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental kbuildsycoca4 running... kbuildsycoca4(11065) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry text/html in "/home/mark/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon). mark@rocky ~/.config/menus/applications-merged $ cat /home/mark/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list [Added Associations] text/html=google-chrome.desktop [Default Applications] text/html=google-chrome.desktop mark@rocky ~/.config/menus/applications-merged $ ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
