On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 12:46 AM, Kevin Krammer <kram...@kde.org> wrote: > 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
Just to close this thread out I never did understand why the Virtualbox menu item didn't get added during install. I used kmenuedit and that worked great for creating a new entry. Thanks, Mark ___________________________________________________ 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.
