How to avoid duplicate entries in desktop system menu?

Christian =?utf-8?Q?V=2E_J=2E_Br=FCssow?= cvjb at cvjb.de
Sat Feb 5 21:51:34 CET 2005


On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 09:10:10PM +0100, Benedikt Meurer wrote:
>Christian wrote:
>>On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 07:17:09PM +0100, Benedikt Meurer wrote:
>>>>I have noticed, that some programs have duplicate entries in the 
>>>>desktop menu.
>>>>[...]
>>>Easy to explain: The first one results in a desktop-id 
>>>"qalculate.desktop", the second one is "kde-qalculate.desktop" (-> 
>>>KDELegacyDirs). The two desktop-ids differ and so the `same 
>>>application' is displayed twice.
>>
>>Sorry, but the content of the two files is identical, and they are both
>>named "qalculate.desktop", so how can they have different desktop-ids?
>
>Sorry, I was implicitly referring to the menu-spec
>(http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/menu-spec-0.9.html).

Ok :-)

>>Hmm, I have moved /usr/share/applications/qalculate.desktop to
>>kde-qalculate.desktop and executed an "xfdesktop -reload", but the two
>>entries are still there.
>
>Try rm -rf ~/.cache/xfce4/menu-cache/ and restarting xfdesktop
>afterwards. If that doesn't fix the problem, then we have a bug here. ;-)

Ok, I have done that... The two entries are still there :-(


Christian




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