Re: Gnome and KDE menus empty

[Tobias Niemann <tobias@tobias-niemann.de>]

Owen Heisler said the following on 17.11.2006 01:20:
> On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 00:20 +0100, Tobias Niemann wrote:
>> I have a problem with the menus of Gnome and KDE. The applications menu
>> is completely empty and the System menu isn't filled properly either.
>> /usr/share/applications is filled with lots of .desktop files and I ran
>> update-menus, too. I'd like to know how the generation of the menu files
>> and structure (subdirectories) works, if there are any other
>> configuration files or possibilities to generate the menus, and where
>> the actual generated configuration file is stored.
> 
> Try running update-menus from the menu package.

I did (see above in my original email), no success...
I guess there must be a configuration file being corrupt.

Does update-menus only build the debian menu inside the Gnome menu? Or
does it also build the Gnome and KDE menu with the help of the menu-methods?
If I understood the principle, the debian menu is being build with the
help of the classification inside the "menufiles" and the authoritative
list of the debian policy package, right? Is there also a definition of
the Gnome menu structure? If yes, where? Maybe that could help solving
my problems.