Hi,

Whenever I try to add a program to the menu manually it fails.
Even worse: If I change something in an existing menu entry that entry disappears from the menu after saving the changes.

The new entry appears in the file ~/.config/menus/applications-kmenuedit.menu but not in the menu.

kbuildsycoca4 --menutest also doesn't show the new or changed entries.

Even when I edit an entry that has been created manually in the past and that resides in my ~/.local/share/applications folder that entry disappears from the menu.

I already checked for file owner and permissions. everything is OK.

I'm clueless.

I am using Kubuntu 10.04 with KDE 4.6, 64 bit

Now finally found the solution here viewtopic.php?f=66&t=97207&hilit=+menu+edit+missing

The Quintessence of that thread was:

Removing the "OnlyShowIn=" line in the .desktop file fixed this problem.
This file is located in ~/.local/share/applications/your_new_app.desktop

For the lazy ones the two following commands removes the "OnlyShowIn=" lines in all of your "private" .desktop files.

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$ sed -i "s/^OnlyShowIn=$//" ~/.local/share/applications/*.desktop
$ kbuildsycoca4

Thanks for reading.