Re: [BULK] Re: [trinity-users][opensuse] menu reconstruction

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On Tuesday 28 January 2020 19:40:03 E. Liddell wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 18:27:23 -0500
>
> Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > A fellow user suffered extreme visual impairment, which severely
> > limits his ability to use his PC. At irregular intervals, I
> > straighten out his problems, and do his release upgrades.
> >
> > Somehow in his desire to reduce clutter on Kicker by deleting unused
> > objects he has managed to eliminate a large number of items from his
> > main menu. Office is totally absent, even though the entirety of
> > LibreOffice is installed. Likewise, Internet, Utilities and System
> > are also missing. Is there some simple XDG or other way to
> > regenerate the menu that doesn't eliminate menu customization or
> > impact Kicker?
> >
> > <https://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/linux_desktop_guides/kde_de
> >sktop_user_guide/kde-menu.html> suggests
> >
> > 	touch $KDEDIR /share/services/update_ksycoca

Meaning KDEDIR has not been defined and exported.  The $ sign means get 
it from the environment, env in a terminal.

I don't us it now for years, so I can't help.

> > Substituting $TDEDIR produces no such file or directory.

s/b TDEDIR=/opt/trinity, or is here.
> >
> > # man ksycoca
> > No manual entry for ksycoca
> > # man xdgmenu
> > No manual entry for xdgmenu
> > # man update-menus
> > No manual entry for update-menus
> > $ ls -l .*xdg* *xdg*
> > ls: cannot access '.*xdg*': No such file or directory
> > ls: cannot access '*xdg*': No such file or directory
> >
> >  :(
>
> My system suggests that you may want "xdg-desktop-menu forceupdate"
> (xdg-utils, has a man page on my system) or maybe "tdebuildsycoca"
> (TDE, no man page).
>
> kappfinder may also be able to help selectively stick applications
> back onto the menu, although it would require some user intervention.
>
> E. Liddell
>
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