Bug 749787

*** Bug 750590 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Same problem here. The .desktop files are created, but the Path key is screwed up:

$ desktop-file-validate ~/.local/share/applications/Test.desktop 
/home/ia03510/.local/share/applications/Test.desktop: error: file contains key "Path[$e]" in group "Desktop Entry", but key names must contain only the characters A-Za-z0-9- (they may have a "[LOCALE]" postfix)

No, that isn't the problem. [$e] is a KConfig feature (kdelibs reads .desktop files using KConfig) which means that the value of "Path" is the result of running a command. This is expected to work. (Now, arguably, the use of a non-portable KConfig feature in ~/.local/share/applications is another bug, but it shouldn't be causing THIS bug.)

Ah, okay, my bad. 

Then really checking to see what's broken, it seems to be the OnlyShowIn key. If "Only show in KDE" is not selected in kmenuedit, the desktop file contains

OnlyShowIn=

and not surprisingly, the menu item isn't shown. Simply removing that key works and menu item appears as expected.

*** Bug 751298 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Yes I have the same issue in f16 64 bit fully up to date.

Editing as per https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=283658 and as above does fix it - also if multiple attempts have been made to see a new subsection then the file in .config/menus/applications-kmenuedit.menu is also needed to remove the incorrect entries.

This needs fixing upstream as soon as possible?

I should have said that in the bz referred above that this is supposed to be fixed in 4.7.3 - is it likely that 4.7.3 will be pushed to f16 soon?

If not then can there be a backport?

4.7.3 is in updates-testing:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-15707

Thanks Kevin - I perhaps should have checked - busy times! I look forward to the new version - and will test if I get some time in the next couple of days.

I have tested the new version 4.7.3.1 in updates-testing which confirms this bug is fixed - so gave positive karma and hopefully this will go to stable soon.

blinken-4.7.3-1.fc16, cantor-4.7.3-1.fc16, grantlee-0.2.0-1.fc16, gwenview-4.7.3-1.fc16, kalgebra-4.7.3-1.fc16, kalzium-4.7.3-1.fc16, kamera-4.7.3-1.fc16, kanagram-4.7.3-1.fc16, kate-4.7.3-1.fc16, kbruch-4.7.3-1.fc16, kcolorchooser-4.7.3-1.fc16, kdeaccessibility-4.7.3-1.fc16, kdeadmin-4.7.3-1.fc16, kdeartwork-4.7.3-1.fc16, kdebase-4.7.3-1.fc16, kdebase-runtime-4.7.3-10.fc16, kdebase-workspace-4.7.3-6.fc16, kdeedu-4.7.3-1.fc16, kdegames-4.7.3-1.fc16, kdegraphics-4.7.3-1.fc16, kdegraphics-strigi-analyzer-4.7.3-1.fc16, kdegraphics-thumbnailers-4.7.3-1.fc16, kde-l10n-4.7.3-1.fc16, kdelibs-4.7.3-2.fc16, kdemultimedia-4.7.3-1.fc16, kdenetwork-4.7.3-1.fc16, kdepim-4.7.3-1.fc16, kdepimlibs-4.7.3-1.fc16, kdepim-runtime-4.7.3-1.fc16, kdeplasma-addons-4.7.3-1.fc16, kdesdk-4.7.3-1.fc16, kdetoys-4.7.3-1.fc16, kdeutils-4.7.3-1.fc16, kde-wallpapers-4.7.3-5.fc16, kgamma-4.7.3-1.fc16, kgeography-4.7.3-1.fc16, khangman-4.7.3-1.fc16, kig-4.7.3-1.fc16, kiten-4.7.3-1.fc16, klettres-4.7.3-1.fc16, kmplot-4.7.3-1.fc16, kolourpaint-4.7.3-1.fc16, konsole-4.7.3-1.fc16, kross-interpreters-4.7.3-1.fc16, kruler-4.7.3-1.fc16, ksaneplugin-4.7.3-1.fc16, ksnapshot-4.7.3-1.fc16, kstars-4.7.3-1.fc16, ktouch-4.7.3-1.fc16, kturtle-4.7.3-1.fc16, kwordquiz-4.7.3-1.fc16, libkactivities-6.1-2.fc16, libkdcraw-4.7.3-1.fc16, libkdeedu-4.7.3-1.fc16, libkexiv2-4.7.3-1.fc16, libkipi-4.7.3-1.fc16, libksane-4.7.3-1.fc16, marble-4.7.3-1.fc16, okular-4.7.3-1.fc16, oxygen-icon-theme-4.7.3-1.fc16, parley-4.7.3-1.fc16, PyKDE4-4.7.3-1.fc16, rocs-4.7.3-1.fc16, smokegen-4.7.3-1.fc16, smokekde-4.7.3-1.fc16, smokeqt-4.7.3-1.fc16, step-4.7.3-1.fc16, svgpart-4.7.3-1.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-15707

FEDORA-2011-15707 is already in updates-testing, now headed for stable.

blinken-4.7.3-1.fc16, cantor-4.7.3-1.fc16, grantlee-0.2.0-1.fc16, gwenview-4.7.3-1.fc16, kalgebra-4.7.3-1.fc16, kalzium-4.7.3-1.fc16, kamera-4.7.3-1.fc16, kanagram-4.7.3-1.fc16, kate-4.7.3-1.fc16, kbruch-4.7.3-1.fc16, kcolorchooser-4.7.3-1.fc16, kdeaccessibility-4.7.3-1.fc16, kdeadmin-4.7.3-1.fc16, kdeartwork-4.7.3-1.fc16, kdebase-4.7.3-1.fc16, kdebase-runtime-4.7.3-10.fc16, kdebase-workspace-4.7.3-6.fc16, kdeedu-4.7.3-1.fc16, kdegames-4.7.3-1.fc16, kdegraphics-4.7.3-1.fc16, kdegraphics-strigi-analyzer-4.7.3-1.fc16, kdegraphics-thumbnailers-4.7.3-1.fc16, kde-l10n-4.7.3-1.fc16, kdelibs-4.7.3-2.fc16, kdemultimedia-4.7.3-1.fc16, kdenetwork-4.7.3-1.fc16, kdepim-4.7.3-1.fc16, kdepimlibs-4.7.3-1.fc16, kdepim-runtime-4.7.3-1.fc16, kdeplasma-addons-4.7.3-1.fc16, kdesdk-4.7.3-1.fc16, kdetoys-4.7.3-1.fc16, kdeutils-4.7.3-1.fc16, kde-wallpapers-4.7.3-5.fc16, kgamma-4.7.3-1.fc16, kgeography-4.7.3-1.fc16, khangman-4.7.3-1.fc16, kig-4.7.3-1.fc16, kiten-4.7.3-1.fc16, klettres-4.7.3-1.fc16, kmplot-4.7.3-1.fc16, kolourpaint-4.7.3-1.fc16, konsole-4.7.3-1.fc16, kross-interpreters-4.7.3-1.fc16, kruler-4.7.3-1.fc16, ksaneplugin-4.7.3-1.fc16, ksnapshot-4.7.3-1.fc16, kstars-4.7.3-1.fc16, ktouch-4.7.3-1.fc16, kturtle-4.7.3-1.fc16, kwordquiz-4.7.3-1.fc16, libkactivities-6.1-2.fc16, libkdcraw-4.7.3-1.fc16, libkdeedu-4.7.3-1.fc16, libkexiv2-4.7.3-1.fc16, libkipi-4.7.3-1.fc16, libksane-4.7.3-1.fc16, marble-4.7.3-1.fc16, okular-4.7.3-1.fc16, oxygen-icon-theme-4.7.3-1.fc16, parley-4.7.3-1.fc16, PyKDE4-4.7.3-1.fc16, rocs-4.7.3-1.fc16, smokegen-4.7.3-1.fc16, smokekde-4.7.3-1.fc16, smokeqt-4.7.3-1.fc16, step-4.7.3-1.fc16, svgpart-4.7.3-1.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.