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[KDE bug] App missing from Menu after customizing Icon

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bluebayou
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Went to customize the icon for KWrite and now it's missing in the Menu, even after re-installing. Now I have to search for it in order to run it.

How do I bring it back so it shows in the menu?

Last edited by bluebayou on Mon Oct 10, 2011 5:57 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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quickest, assuming your searching is within kmenu, is to when found right click and "add to favorites"


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Search in Kmenu only brings up "run Kwrite."
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you can create a new Kwrite menu entry

http://www.kubuntu.org/doc/7.10/config- ... /tips.html
......you can customize your menus and add entries for applications that don't automatically appear after they are installed. To add, remove, or modify an entry, refer to the following procedure.

‪1.‬ Open KDE Menu Editor by right clicking on KMenu and choosing Menu Editor. If you have locked your Kicker, you can also open KDE Menu Editor by pressing Alt+F2 and typing kmenuedit followed by pressing the OK button.

2.‬ In KDE Menu Editor's left-hand pane, choose the submenu the new entry should appear in.

3.‬Choose File → New Item or press the New Item button. In the New Item window, choose a Name. Then add the Description, Comment, and Command. Select the icon by clicking on Icon. The Command will usually be the package name, Name is what will appear on the menu, and the Comment will appear in the tooltip that appears near the menu entry. Icons are chosen from /usr/share/icons/icon_theme directory by default, or can be chosen from anywhere in your files.

To change the order of menu entries, click and drag the entry in the KDE Menu Editor window.

http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdebase-w ... nuedit.pdf


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google01103 wrote:you can create a new Kwrite menu entry

That's the thing, that doesn't work either!

It's like if you change the default icon, KDE "blacklists" that app from ever showing up on the Menu again!!!!!!
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try emptying your KDE cache either ~/.kde4/cache-?????.site or ~/.kde/cache-?????.site (where the "?"'s is the user account)
then run kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental


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can you open the kmenu editor and see if the kwrite is there (should be under Utilities -> Editor)


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This problem happened today to me, too. I'm using KDE 4.7.2. I wanted to edit the KDE Menu entries for LibreOffice Calc, to add an export command (export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome) to the existing command, as it is not possible to scroll horizontally with LibreOffice Calc in KDE (see e.g. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php ... 18#p971718). However, when I made the change to the KDE Menu entries for LibreOffice Calc and LibreOffice Base using kmenuedit, LibreOffice Calc and LibreOffice Base then disappeared from the KDE Menu completely. And the file associations have disappeared from System Settings > File Associations, too.

I have tried kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental but it made no difference.

Bug in KDE?
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Found this bug report - if it is what you're experiencing post your experiences and vote - https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=283658


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google01103 wrote:Found this bug report - if it is what you're experiencing post your experiences and vote - https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=283658

Yep, that seems to be the problem.
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Fix coming in ver 4.7.3
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Same problem here too. It was working previously.
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Removing the "OnlyShowIn=" line in the .desktop file fixed this problem for me.
This file is located in ~/.local/share/applications/your_new_app.desktop


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