Re: Bug#270702: Installing kino doesn't update KDE menu
retitle 270702 Ignores .desktop file names starting with letter k
reassign 270702 kdebase
thanks
> > On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 08:57:17PM +0100, Richard Lamont wrote:
> > > Usually, when installing a desktop application package, the KDE
> > > menus get updated. This didn't happen with kino. The menu updating
> > > tool can't find it either.
This turns out to be a bug in KDE. Kino is a gtk application, despite
its name starting with k. It installs a file
/usr/share/applications/kino.desktop, but no entry turns up in the KDE
menu. After pulling out a substantial part of my hair over this issue, I
found out that renaming the file to, say, gino.desktop makes the menu
entry appear. Along the same line, renaming an arbitrary file in that
directory to something starting with letter k makes the respective menu
entry disappear in KDE.
It seems that most of the other k* executables indeed are KDE
applications, and install their .desktop files in
/usr/share/applications/kde/ instead[1]. I assume that's why this bug
wasn't noticed earlier.
Regards,
Daniel.
[1] kanatest, kazehakase, gtk2-engines-gtk-qt, kipina being the other
exceptions I found in main.
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