Hi Mark, On Thursday, 2014-03-20, 17:26:49, Mark Knecht 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 ~ #
That looks good. > 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'. The Categories are basically hints, used by the menu implementations to group applications. I think in KDE's menu it would go into System. It is strange that in your case it is not added at all and unfortunately I don't know why. Things that go into /usr/share/applications here appear even automatically, i.e. without manually triggering the update. You could try coping the virtualbox.desktop to your son's $HOME/.local/share/applications/ And the running the update program again. If nothing else works you could try adding the menu entry manually using kmenuedit. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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