Thanks for the reply,
I do click the save button,b but still no changes are made. I agree with you
as far as Windows is concerned. it wins hands down in this regard. Perhaps
Mandrake will finally fix this problem in the next release. I have to admit
that they have done a good job Linux though, there are lots of things that DO
work well. Thanks again.
Jim
On Tuesday 20 February 2001 22:26, you wrote:
> 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
>
