[Portland] Adding menu entries inside a submenu

RazZziel razielmine at gmail.com
Wed Oct 24 20:52:09 PDT 2007


Hi, I'm trying to create menu entries inside a submenu called
"Applications (installed by klik)" with xdg utils. I'm new to this
utilities, but even if I think I'm following the tutorials without
problems, all the applications I add to the submenu appear inside the
"Lost & Found" menu in KDE (and "Other" in XFCE IIRC).

This is what I call with system() inside the daemon to add all the applications:

xdg-desktop-menu install /opt/klik/share/klik/klik-klik.directory
/tmp/klik/*.desktop

Which completes to:

xdg-desktop-menu install /opt/klik/share/klik/klik-klik.directory
/tmp/klik/klik-abuse_1_0_7_0-5.desktop
/tmp/klik/klik-bzflag_2_0_8_20060605_b4.desktop
/tmp/klik/klik-enigma_1_01-1.desktop /tmp/klik/klik-firefox.desktop
/tmp/klik/klik-geki2_2_0_3-7.desktop
/tmp/klik/klik-geki3_1_0_3-7.desktop
/tmp/klik/klik-googleearth.desktop
/tmp/klik/klik-kyzis-devel-version.desktop
/tmp/klik/klik-pachi_1_1_0-5.desktop /tmp/klik/klik-skype.desktop
/tmp/klik/klik-vivia.desktop /tmp/klik/klik-xara-latest.desktop
/tmp/klik/klik-xara.desktop /tmp/klik/klik-xvier_1_0-7_3.desktop

This is the directory file:

[raziel at Bebop ~]$ cat /opt/klik/share/klik/klik-klik.directory
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Directory
Name=Applications (installed by klik)
Name[de]=Programme (installiert mit klik)
Icon=/opt/klik/share/klik/klik.png

And one of the .desktop files created inside the daemon:

[raziel at Bebop ~]$ cat /tmp/klik/klik-geki2_2_0_3-7.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Exec=klik /home/raziel/Apps/geki2_2.0.3-7.cmg
Icon=klik-geki2_2_0_3-7
Name=geki2_2.0.3-7

Can anyone see why it doesn't work?


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