hello
I'm using debian wheezy and have recently installed kde using Synaptic Package Manager.
The problem is kde does not know which applications to use. There's no application at all in Application Launcher ,or it hasn't found out that THERE ARE installed applications?!, the only thing at there is the search field above Application Launcher and nothing else. Even when I type "terminal" in that search field it doesn't find anything, but when I type ,for example, vlc it shows a "Run vlc" link, so I can use vlc player.



as shown above, there's no application to launch. Even when I click on Home in "Places" field a "Plasma Desktop Shell" window appears and asks me which application to use, it seems kde has not detected/sorted any kind of program or... whatever.



I use xfce or gnome and everything is fluent, but kde not just right. What should I do about this?
I don't have anything like this:

run in konsole

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kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental  2> /dev/null

what happens if you right click the launcher -> edit applications ? do the apps show in the menu hierarchy

It worked.
Thank you so much.

I just put the code in the search field and after a few moments of thinking, it worked.
Could you explain about this? I really like to know what was missing back there.
I also found this topic:
viewtopic.php?f=17&t=120809

I also have to mention that I didn't right click on Launcher. I just used the code and put in the search field.

Tahmoores wrote:It worked.
Thank you so much.

I just put the code in the search field and after a few moments of thinking, it worked.
Could you explain about this? I really like to know what was missing back there.
I also found this topic:
viewtopic.php?f=17&t=120809

I'd guess some when you initially installed KDE some process that should of ran didn't

from the man page

kbuildsycoca4, as part of the KDE command line tools ensures the proper operation of KDE by reading in all the .desktop, .directory, .kimgio and .protocol files to constructs a binary database.

KDE itself accesses this database during operation to provide configuration information a program needs to run.

This tool is part of ksycoca, which stands for KDE System Configuration Cache