Hi,

Is there any GUI utility for editing services menu?

I'm using Mint KDE and I search in synaptic package manager to see what if there is any tool like that but I failed. I tried to google about it but I found many references point to shell script based solution ... no one talked about GUI solution

Are you referring to the service menus used by Dolphin and Konqueror, or something else?

like this http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?co ... orumpage=1

just extract and run the command - note setup.py does not seem to do anything

google01103 wrote:like this http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?co ... orumpage=1

just extract and run the command - note setup.py does not seem to do anything

Sorry I didn't get it What I've to do? I did the following but it didn't work!

1. Downloaded & extracted kservicemenueditor-0.2a
2. Run ./setup.py

I got this error message:

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./setup.py", line 7, in <module>
    from DistUtilsExtra.command import *
ImportError: No module named DistUtilsExtra.command

PS
I already installed Python-KDE4

just run the command: servicemenueeditor, as I noted earlier setup.py does nothing,

ps - I have no actual experience with the app,

there is documentation, you can start here http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tut ... vice_Menus note that part is kde3 specific

google01103 wrote:just run the command: servicemenueeditor, as I noted earlier setup.py does nothing,

Still something missing!!

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$ ./servicemenueditor
could not find one or more of the required .ui files. Make sure these files are installed to a directory listed by `kde4-config --path data`

I'm wondering why KDE doesn't offer GUI tool by default just like Menu Editor

try running the command from within in the folder you extracted it to

ex
~/MyTemp> cd kservicemenueditor-0.2a
~/MyTemp/kservicemenueditor-0.2a>
~/MyTemp/kservicemenueditor-0.2a> ./kservicemenueditor

google01103 wrote:try running the command from within in the folder you extracted it to

ex
~/MyTemp> cd kservicemenueditor-0.2a
~/MyTemp/kservicemenueditor-0.2a>
~/MyTemp/kservicemenueditor-0.2a> ./kservicemenueditor

Oh my got.... I did that since you sent the above link.

The error message crystal clear it couldn't see .ui files although they already exists in same path.

As you are using Mint, have you considered trying the PPA which will ensure proper installation of the Service Menu Editor?
The *.ui file likely needs to be installed in an appropriate directory structure, which is what the setup.py file does.

bcooksley wrote:As you are using Mint, have you considered trying the PPA which will ensure proper installation of the Service Menu Editor?
The *.ui file likely needs to be installed in an appropriate directory structure, which is what the setup.py file does.

Unfortunately lookd for PPA contains this packed but it seems no one interested

By the way, where can I make feature request in KDE ? I really want to request this option.

Does any one find out how to install Service Menu Editor under ubuntu based distro?

Voila I fixed this issue as following:

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sudo apt-get install python-distutils-extra

then

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sudo ./setup.py install

KDE feature requests can be filed at bugs.kde.org.

bcooksley wrote:KDE feature requests can be filed at bugs.kde.org.

Which KDE product contains on services menu? Does it KWin?