My KDE 4.7.3 on openSUSE 12.1 has lost its applications' menu and file associations somehow. Any tips on how to get them back?

Where can I find "Edit applications" other than via right clicking on the menu? When I do right click on the menu icon, it does not give me that choice.

Can you try running

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kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental

in the terminal and see if the problem persists?

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kasutaja@opensuse:~> kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental
kbuildsycoca4 running...
kbuildsycoca4(4726): "applications.menu"  not found in  ("/home/kasutaja/.config/menus/", "/etc/xdg/menus/")

And the problem persists (also tried logging out and in again).

I did a yast sw manager seatch using the "filename" option looking for "/etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu" and the file was found in the kdelibs4 & desktop-data-openSUSE rpms, so try reinstalling the 2 rpms

fyi - I did a locate for applications.menu and found
>locate applications.menu
/etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu
/etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu.kde
/etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu.kde4
/etc/xdg/menus/gnome-applications.menu
/etc/xdg/menus/xfce-applications.menu
/home/smiley/.config/menus/applications.menu
/home/smiley/.config/menus/applications.menu.bak

I noticed that updates had become available and upgraded KDE to 4.7.4, so kdelibs4 got reinstalled. That didn't resolve the problem. For applications.menu I found only this file: /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu.kde4

I didn't have desktop-data-openSUSE installed, so I installed it and after that I found also /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu (and tried even rebooting), but it didn't resolve the problem either.

did you rerun kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental ?

Now I did and it resolved the problem indeed. Thanks