Hello,

I am trying to customize the KMenu for a bunch of users on KDE3.5 running on CentOS 5.3. I want to do this via central config files on a shared mount point to save making changes to each machine.


After looking at
http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdebase-r ... -menu.html

TO change the menu layout I imagine I put a custom application.menu and .desktop related files here:

$KDEDIR/etc/xdg/menus
$KDEDIR/share/applications


I setenv KDEDIR to a test location (/disk1/kdetest) and running:

kde-config --path xdgdata-apps

lists...

/disk1/kdetest/share/applications/

as one of the locations which is what I expected. (i,e, KDE is looking in that dir for files)



However running:

kde-config --path xdgconf-menu

just gives just the standard locations..

/etc/kde/xdg/menus/
/etc/xdg/menus/
/usr/people/systest1/.config/menus/ (the users home)

There is no mention of the $KDEDIRS location which should be
/disk1/kdetest/etc/xdg/menus/



I tried setting KDE_CONFIG_DIRS to all the paths manually:

setenv XDG_CONFIG_DIRS /disk1/kdetest/etc/xdg/menus/:/etc/kde/xdg/menus/:/etc/xdg/menus/:/usr/people/systest1/.config/menus/


but then

kde-config --path xdgconf-menu

just gives the users home:

/usr/people/systest1/.config/menus/


Any ideas whay I setting KDE_CONFIG_DIRS doesn't work?



Nick

You need to set the XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable. In addition, KDEDIR should point to the main location where KDE is installed, and KDEDIRS can include multiple directories ( usually including what KDEDIR already has ) otherwise the system can have issues starting KDE up, finding plugins / protocols / etc.