I am running KDE 2.2 on my Mandrake 8.0/Cooker system. I find that I cannot use the default menu editor to do anything useful with my menus if I get to it via the panel by either right-clicking the panel and selecting the panel menu -> menu editor or if I do it via the kmenu button. I get the menudrake app that doesn't do anything useful. By this, I mean that the menu list it produces indicates something like lyx existing in the kstart menu -> office list but in reality, it doesn't exist. Trying to (re)add it via the menudrake app, as root or user, seems to work but when I go back to the kstart menu->office list, it never shows up. Not after a reboot, not after a logout-login cycle. Nothing makes the kstart menu lists necessarily match what menudrake (kstart -> configure panel -> menu editor...) shows. On the other hand, if I start kmenuedit (by necessity from a CLI since it isn't listed in the kstart menu or submenus), it displays all the correct and existent apps listed in the kmenus and any changes I make, as root or user, subsequently show up as they should. The panel's menu editor displays things that sometimes aren't really there and adding/changing anything in the editor does NOTHING inspite of giving all indications that it is doing something worthwhile while the kmenuedit app does exactly what it is supposed to do. Why not dump menudrake or make kmenuedit the DEFAULT kde menu editor? This retarded behavior has existed for me on pre kde 2.2 installs too...from clean installs/reinstalls to upgrades. Nothing makes the menu editor function as it should. Any ideas? Why would the default KDE menu editor be a broken/nonfunctioning app instead of the VERY nice and working kmenuedit? The name "menudrake" indicates that it is something specific to mandrake rather than something that KDE wants. Perhaps menudrake works in Gnome or some other environment but I have not found it to work for quite a while, for several iterations of KDE, within the KDE environment. No error messages ever. It just does't do anything useful, apparently. praedor
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