It seems I'm having a similar issue on my setup (4.2.0 on Gentoo).

When I installed 4.2.0, it picked up my menus as I had them in 3.5, so I didn't bother with it. Somehow though, a few days ago, the menu changed entries, and lost it's previous content. KMenueditor doesn't seem to do anything at all. Not deleting or adding items has no effect on the menu structure.

This problem kinda drives me crazy, and I have no clue what's wrong. It seems kmenueditor stores it's changes in ~/.config/menus/applications-kmenuedit.menu, but those are not picked up by kickoff and neither kmenuedit has them on a later run.

Any ideas?
Thanks!

I just freshly tried this on my trunk installation and it works fine, at least for adding a single application.

Just tried again on a friends PC with 4.2.1. Same thing. Kmenuedit seems to update the same file, but kickoff doesn't pick up the changes (tried login out/in, etc).

We both have both 4 and 3.5.10 installed together on Gentoo. .kde points to .kde3.5 and .kde4 is on it's own.

That is correct. Try manually running "kbuildsycoca4"

bcooksley wrote:That is correct. Try manually running "kbuildsycoca4"

Tried that too, still nothing.

Here's a relavent thread at gentoo:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-74 ... ckoff.html

I'm thinking this has to do something with both 3.x and 4 being on the same machine.

katherinej wrote:Have you tried manually??

Nope, I haven't edited .menu files by hand, if that's what you mean. It's structure seem pretty complex to make sure I've entered something correctly.

I also just updated from the jaunty repositories and the edit problem is gone. The latest Kubuntu packages fix the problem for me.

MrZammler wrote:

katherinej wrote:Have you tried manually??

Nope, I haven't edited .menu files by hand, if that's what you mean. It's structure seem pretty complex to make sure I've entered something correctly.

For some strange reason, this worked:

In .config/menus made a dir called 'applications-merged'
Inside I created a link to ../applications-kmenuedit.menu

Now, kmenuedit saves it's things in ./config/menus/applications-kmenuedit.menu and kickoff picks it from applications-merged.

No idea why this worked...