2009/6/8 Cristian Gary <cristiang...@gmail.com>: > Run in konsole kde 4.2 , " bash$ kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental" with > this you force the rebuild of kde menu.
Thank you both. I am still running kde-3.5.10 so I ran: ================================================ $ kbuildsycoca --noincremental Warning: kbuildsycoca is unable to register with DCOP. kbuildsycoca running... kbuildsycoca: ERROR: applications.menu not found in (/home/michael/.config/menus/) kio (KService*): WARNING: The desktop entry file .hidden/dirfilterplugin.desktop has Type=Service but is located under "apps" instead of "services" kio (KService*): WARNING: Invalid Service : .hidden/dirfilterplugin.desktop kbuildsycoca: WARNING: 'ark_part.desktop' specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'application/x-tbz2' kbuildsycoca: WARNING: 'karm_part.desktop' specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'text/english' kbuildsycoca: WARNING: 'karm_part.desktop' specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'text/x-c' kbuildsycoca: WARNING: 'karm_part.desktop' specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'text/x-c++' kbuildsycoca: WARNING: 'klinkstatus_part.desktop' specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'text/english' kbuildsycoca: WARNING: 'klinkstatus_part.desktop' specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'text/x-c' kbuildsycoca: WARNING: 'klinkstatus_part.desktop' specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'text/x-c++' kbuildsycoca: WARNING: 'kcertpart.desktop' specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'application/binary-certificate' kbuildsycoca: WARNING: 'kxsldbg_part.desktop' specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'text/english' kbuildsycoca: WARNING: 'kxsldbg_part.desktop' specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'text/x-c' kbuildsycoca: WARNING: 'kxsldbg_part.desktop' specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'text/x-c++' kbuildsycoca: WARNING: 'katepart.desktop' specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'text/x-fortran' kbuildsycoca: WARNING: 'knotify.desktop' specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'KNotify' kbuildsycoca: WARNING: 'ksvgplugin.desktop' specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'image/svg' ================================================ True enough the error about applications.menu is because this is what I have under /home/michael/.config/menus: total 0 drwx------ 3 michael users 88 May 13 2008 . drwx------ 8 michael users 224 May 30 16:55 .. drwx------ 2 michael users 48 May 13 2008 applications-merged $ ls -la /home/michael/.config/menus/applications-merged total 0 drwx------ 2 michael users 48 May 13 2008 . drwx------ 3 michael users 88 May 13 2008 .. What should it be in there? -- Regards, Mick