On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 10:53 -0500, Ryan Daly wrote: > On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 16:26 +0100, Kevin Krammer wrote: > > On Saturday 10 November 2007, Ryan Daly wrote: > > > All: > > > > > > I saw a posting on this in the kde-devel archives, but the thread ended > > > before a resolution was found. The link is: > > > http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-devel&m=116460522917827&w=2 > > > > > > I'm running into the same problem w/ v3.5.7. I built this using > > > konstruct. > > > > > > When I click on the Control Center from the menu, I see the following: > > > > > > kio (KLauncher): KLauncher: Got start_service_by_desktop_name('kcontrol', > > > ...) > > > > Can you check if you have a kcontrol.desktop file in > > $prefix/share/applications or a subdirectory of it? > > If you have a KControl.desktop, try copying it to kcontrol.desktop (all lower > > case). > > > > Should work either way though, at least it does on 3.5.7 installed from binary > > packages. > > Thanks for the quick reply. I tried copying and creating a symlink to > it, but no luck either way. > > I did notice that when I copied the file, my 'kbuildsycoca' produced > this: > > kbuildsycoca: new: /opt/kde/v3.5.7/share/applications/kde/kcontrol.desktop > > However (pulling from the thread referenced above), when I issue > > ktradertest Application '' "DesktopEntryName=='kcontrol'" > > I get the following: > > query is : Application > genericServiceType is : > constraint is : DesktopEntryName=='kcontrol' > preference is : > kio (KSycoca): Trying to open ksycoca > from /var/tmp/kdecache-daly/ksycoca > kio (KTrader): query for Application : returning 0 offers > got 0 offers. > > So something still isn't picking up that kcontrol.desktop file. I also noticed that I'm receiving the same symptom when attempting to edit the main menu. (Meaning if I move my mouse over K Menu, right-click, and select Menu Editor, I get the following: kio (KLauncher): KLauncher: Got start_service_by_desktop_name('kmenuedit', ...) But, the menu editor does not launch. -- ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.