There have been previous postings to this list regarding menudrake problems.
Menudrake IS to make changes to your menu. I can only speak for KDE, which is
what I run, but I have found that after making changes with MenuDrake, I need
to log out and log back in again for the changes to take place, suggesting
(of course) that KDE only reads your personal menu modifications at login
time, because presumably there is no hook in KDE that allows an app such as
MenuDrake to tell it to reread the menu. It would be nice if that were added
(hint, hint).
You should make sure you are clicking the "save" button before exiting
MenuDrake. In theory it should be telling you if you have unsaved changes
when you exit, though.
As far as I know, there is no command line utilty for editing the KDE menus.
The menus are containing in a dir under /etc for systemwide menus, and your
person menu exists as modificatons to the system-wide menu stored under your
home dir (~/.menu).
This is one area that I actually think windows did a better job. I like the
way windows keeps its start menu stuff as a folder tree with shortcuts to the
programs; it would be nice if KDE organized the menu in a similar fashion,
with folders representing menu/submenu items, and each program in the menu
tree could be either a symlink to the executable, or a text file (as they are
now) containing the info. KDE could provide an item on the K menu or a
utility to create a blank menu pointer item, which could then be edited from
the properties to setup the icon, display name, target link, etc, just as you
do in MenuDrake. That would allow you to rearrange the menu just as you do in
Windows by dragging folders and files around, and if the K menu read that
tree each time you clicked it, changes would happen immediately.
Neal
On Tuesday 20 February 2001 06:50, Jim Francis wrote:
> Hello
> Please excuse the following stupid question, but can anyone tell me what
> Menudrake is really for ? I assumed it was for adding and editing menu
> items. Try as I may ,I cannot get it to change anything. Installed a
> program the other day (ripperX), and it would not save any changes I had
> added to the menu to include the new program. I could see the change in
> Menudrake, but not in the menu. Tried restarting X, rebooting also. Running
> KDE 2.0 , Mandrake 7.2. Is there any way to edit the menu from the command
> line?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Jim
