Hello, I'm trying to add a system-wide menu item to both Gnome and KDE using xdg-desktop-menu. I have been testing this on a variety of Linux distros. On Fedora 7, I noticed if I installed my program from Gnome, it shows up in both Gnome and KDE, but if I install it from KDE, it only shows up in KDE.
It turns out on Fedora 7 with KDE, XDG_CONFIG_DIRS is set to /etc/kde/xdg:/etc/xdg. This causes the .menu files generated by xdg-desktop menu to go into /etc/kde/xdg/menus/applications-merged instead of /etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged, and GNOME does not know about /etc/kde/xdg. Isn't this behavior defeating the point of XDG? So far Fedora 7 + KDE is the only major distro I encountered that does this. Linux From Scratch says to do this, [1] but I imagine that does not affect many users. - Lei [1] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/desktop-file-utils.html _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
