Re: Where does the TDE menu live?

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On 2025-08-10 14:10:08 dep via tde-users wrote:
> said E. Liddell via tde-users:
> | I found a massively messy XML file in
> | ~/.config/menus/applications-tdemenuedit.menu that looks like it may
> | contain my current menu information, plus a bunch of junky edit history.
> |  Whether it's only used by tdemenuedit or is actually applied to the
> | live menu on startup, I have no idea.
>
> Thing is, it seems to also contain stuff that's not in my kmenu.
>
> There has got to be some sense to it -- kmenu works, after all -- but it
> seems to be kind of a developers secret handshake, a mystery that becomes
> available only after initiation.
>
> It also makes it difficult if not impossible to have multiple desktops,
> because even if you try to keep them separate they somehow inspect each
> other and add their applications to each other's own menus. For example,
> I've recently been inspecting Enlightenment -- and now there are
> Enlightenment things in my kmenu. It is nice that packages that we install
> automatically get added to kmenu, if there's no easily identifiable
> executable.
>
> Something that I have noticed is that the alternate-desktop menu entry
> harvesting does not seem to extent to applications added to kmenu by hand.

	On the other hand, applications downloaded from non-repository sites hardly 
ever automatically add entries to the menu.  Thank goodness that we have 
KMenuEdit!

Leslie
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