I'm running opensuse 12.3 KDE 4.10 and recently opensuse upgraded it to 4.10.5 all seems ok apart from this area.

What seems to have happened ?? is that edit applications is still pointing to the 4.10 file. I can edit, save it and reload it seeing these changes but the changes don't appear in the program launches.

I'm wondering if there are some configuration files I can edit by hand to fix this.

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try running

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kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental  2> /dev/null

also check the permissions of folder ~/.local/share/applications/ and the files within you should be the owner and have rw rights

That folder has 2 desktop files in it that I created, didn't work so deleted using right click on them in the list . That options seems to have gone since the upgrade to 4.10.5

The command hasn't changed anything.

Little more detail

I added a folder plus 2 sub items. The command fields are greyed out. The folder I added was called OpenSuse and the sub items OpenSuse and same On Line Help. These are currently on my desktop. I don't use them very often. I assume that the command field should be greyed out on the folder entry but not the entries under it.

cane you try as a different user, new would be best

Bizarre. I just deleted the entries I made and entered them again and all is ok now apart from one aspect. I'm sure I did them the same way as before as well.

One of the commands is actually a url that goes to the opensuse on line help. Just entering that in the command field doesn't work. Is there a prefix etc that will cause it to be sent to the default browser?

what is the command you are using? usually it's something like: rekonq url

ps - you might need the full path of the browser ex: /usr/bin/konqueror url

If the url points directly to a PDF, etc file then you may find the "xdg-open" command to be of more use - it will cause KDE to invoke the appropriate application instead (depending on your configuration).