Thanks. This is consistent with what I figured out. I suspect that I can save the kickoffrc file along with the desktop file and then reconstruct the menu by hand if it seems necessary.
Cheers,Mark On 12/9/11, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > Dale posted on Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:41:49 -0600 as excerpted: > >> Maybe Duncan will have some ideas on this. > > I'm not sure whether the following will help much or not. It's more a > bunch of semi-related thoughts and comments on the general idea, since I > rarely use the kickoff menu and thus it's one of the few bits of kde that > I've only very lightly customized. I don't believe I've customized > Favorites at all, so obviously wouldn't know if the customizations > survived upgrades here or not. > > I thought Internet Favorites, aka bookmarks, at first. I've certainly > never lost them, even in the upgrade from 3.x. Actually, I think some of > them might even be from kde2 era! > > Then when I realized it wasn't that, I immediately thought of the panel > in dolphin, etc, but that's Places, not Favorites. > > But for the kickoff menu, kickoffrc does sound like the place to look. > > I've never really customized it tho (as I said), since I use a scripted > hotkey setup I devised in the switch to kde4 when khotkeys lost the > proper multikey support that it had in kde3, for launching all my > commonly used apps. So I only rarely use kickoff and haven't customized > it hardly at all. > > I'd do some testing, but I just finished upgrading to 4.7.90 aka 4.8- > beta2, here, and am rather too tired to reason the tests out effectively. > Maybe when I wake up. > > > But I can leave you with this. *.desktop files are the freedesktop.org > standard for setting up menu entries, etc. KDE uses them for services > that the user doesn't start directly, too, tho I'm not sure if that's > part of or an extension of the freedesktop.org standard. (A services > example would be the ghns, get-hot-new-stuff, service, which is the > integration with kde-look for downloading new wallpapers, plasmoids, > etc... that's a service described by one or more *.desktop files among > other things, available as part of a number of kde apps, not an > individual app to be run separately or have its own menu item). > > Typically, the format is the usual ini-file-format, [sections] in > brackets, entry=value pairs, # starts a comment and blank lines ignored. > They typically consist of title and description lines, both translated > into dozens of different languages, plus the functional part that says > what executable to run for a menu item, or library to load for a service, > etc, and often a number of additional lines of optional information. > > So a reference to firefox.desktop probably refers to the menu item, as > created by the firefox.desktop file as it'd be found in /usr/share/apps > or some such (too tired to check specifics ATM). > > That should give you some idea what those *.desktop entries refer to, > anyway. You can equery belongs firefox.desktop to find the package > (probably firefox) and system path it's installed in. The other > *.desktop references should then be easy enough to find, hanging out in > either that area in system, or in the parallel homedir location, > /usr/share/apps and $KDEHOME/share/apps ($KDEHOME defaults to ~/.kde if > the variable isn't set) and the XDG parallel under ~/.config or ~/.local, > IDR which. > > That should be enough to get somewhere with, I think/hope. > > -- > Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. > "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- > and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman > > ___________________________________________________ > This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. > Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. > Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. > More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. > ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
