On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 15:59, Joshua Andrews wrote: > Jonathan Rawle wrote: > > >Joshua Andrews wrote: > > > > > > > >>I am new to FC but not new to RedHat. > >> > >>I just installed FC2 and found some things missing from the programs > >>menu in KDE, Pan for one. > >> > >>I added it with the menu editor about 10 times and it will not show up, > >>now I look and there is a ~/.local/ full of files pan-x.desktop! What > >>magic am I missing here? > >> > >> > >> > > > >Did you retain your settings after upgrading to FC2? > > > >I had lots of problems (couldn't edit the menu, couldn't set file > >associations, some submenus completely missing...) so in the end I deleted > >my .local directory and now everything seems to work. > > > >It took me a while to find .local - I was looking for something in .kde, so > >I did delete a few other things such as .kde/share/config/profilerc - you > >might want to try that too. (Of course, copy the files somewhere else - > >don't delete them until you're sure it works!) > > > >Jonathan > > > > > Thanks for the reply, > I did a clean install so there are no old setting conflicting anywhere. > There is something very screwy about the menu, I have yet to figure > exactly where it is getting its configuration since the menu editor has > almost no effect on it. Plus, I really don't like the seperators > "|Actions|", "|All Applications|", etc. and I would like to get rid of > them. There must be an XML file or something somewhere I can manually edit. > > Anyway, at this point there are certain to be many more important issues > than appearances but I really really don't like not being able to change > the menu. > > Thanks, > Joshua > http://freedesktop.org/Standards/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-0.9.4.html Look in /etc/xdg -- Will
