kde menu editor

Ozymandias · Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2002 12:47 pm Post subject: kde menu editor

Hi there,

Is there a utility where you can edit your kde menu, it is now full of apps I never use and the ones I do use aren't there. Or where does it build its menu structure from? I allso want to run custom commands in the popup menu from konqueror, any way to edit that one?

please help, Ozy

cphax · n00b Joined: 13 Jul 2002 Posts: 7

Try 'kmenuedit' to edit menus. It should be part of KDE base install.

I think KDE stores it's menus under /usr/kde/kde_version/share, but i've never had any reason to edit them directly.

For konqueror's menus, see:

/usr/kde/3.1/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/

(change the version to suit yours, my machine has 3.1alpha)

I think these can be configured from konqueror somewhere, but since i don't use it anymore, i wouldn't know.

Hopefully these will get you started! Good luck!

Ozymandias · Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2002 1:45 pm Post subject:

Allright!
tnx cphax!

I tried kmenuedit before, but then it told me I needed root rights etc, and back then I didn't feel like hacking my complete system. But now I seem to be able to edit my entire menu! It works, thumps up for KDE.

greetz Ozy

paul138 · Guru Joined: 09 Aug 2002 Posts: 370 Location: Ottawa, ON

It's still lacking much functionality IMHO.

You'd think something as trivial as a menu editing tool would be fully functional :roll:

friedmud · Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 2:34 am Post subject:

You guys know you can just right click on the "K" and click "Edit Menu" right???

Just checking...

Derek

static55 · n00b Joined: 13 Aug 2002 Posts: 15

i think right clicking the K and selecting Menu Editor actually pops kmenuedit up.

i like editing menus from the command line.

/usr/kde/3/share/applnk is where the menu items and directory structure is. this affects all users. (for kde 3.0.2 and 3.0.3, anyway)

also, in /home/username/.kde/share/applnk are the menu items if you want to edit them on a per-user basis.

i seem to remember emerging a gnome app or two.. i think some desktop entries got added to some other gnome-specific (?) directory someplace on my system and kde found them and put them in my menu. i forgot where they were, but if you have a similar problem, you can find 'em like so:

find / | grep "\.desktop"

the mimetypes each app is responsible for loading is stored in the *.desktop files in those directories. it took me a while of fighting with the "file associations" in konqueror before i figured that one out..

it's easier to edit mimetype-application associations from the command line too, imho.