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Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Apps failing to show up in KDE menu

I just installed BZFlag and Cube, and there's no "Games" entry in the KDE menu, even after I restarted KDE. What's screwing up? Is this the same thing that happens with Gnome menus under Xorg 7?

lunke

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2005-05-21

Posts: 86

Re: Apps failing to show up in KDE menu

Yes I've noticed the same thing in Xfce, it seems that new xorg messes up the XDG_DATA_DIRS variable, it excludes /usr/share
so just add some thing like this to a executable script in /etc/profile.d

XDG_DATA_DIRS=$XDG_DATA_DIRS:/usr/share
export XDG_DATA_DIRS
#I'm not sure if this is needed as well
XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS:/etc/xdg
export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS

Perhaps someone oughta file a bug report?

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: Apps failing to show up in KDE menu

Yup, only the first two lines are needed... Thanks. Filing a bug report now.

It only begs the question... Why the hell did the Xorg people change the XDG_DATA_DIRS defaults? :?

MartinZ

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From: Chiloé, Chile

Registered: 2005-06-10

Posts: 379

Re: Apps failing to show up in KDE menu

Yes I've noticed the same thing in Xfce, it seems that new xorg messes up the XDG_DATA_DIRS variable, it excludes /usr/share
so just add some thing like this to a executable script in /etc/profile.d

XDG_DATA_DIRS=$XDG_DATA_DIRS:/usr/share
export XDG_DATA_DIRS

Thanks!!! At least i've my menu and mime back!!!

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lunke

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2005-05-21

Posts: 86

Re: Apps failing to show up in KDE menu

Yup, only the first two lines are needed... Thanks. Filing a bug report now.

It only begs the question... Why the hell did the Xorg people change the XDG_DATA_DIRS defaults? :?

If you files a report please post a link to it in this thread later

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: Apps failing to show up in KDE menu

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/3663