Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 169327
xmaxima not shown in KDE menu
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:14 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90; H010818) Description of problem: xmaxima does not appear in the desktop menu in the stock Fedora KDE 3.4.2. I think this is due to the categories in xmaxima.desktop: Categories=Application;Scientific;Education;Math; The Red Hat menu contains none of these categories. (Note that I'm running the official Fedora KDE packages, not the ones from the KDE-RedHat project.) This may or may not affect GNOME as well (it probably does). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): maxima-gui-5.9.1.9rc1-4.fc4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open the KDE menu (in stock Fedora packages of KDE 3.4.2). 2. Check all the categories, looking for xmaxima. Actual Results: Xmaxima should be shown in one of the categories. Expected Results: Xmaxima is nowhere to be found. Additional info: If my analysis is correct, then the solution to this problem is to add a valid category to the Categories list. I'd suggest one of "Office;", "Utility;" or maybe "Development;". (Yes, ideally, redhat-menus would have some category for scientific apps rather than having to stuff them all into some vaguely-fitting section, but...) "Office;" contains Kile and Lyx, most other Math-related stuff is in "Utility;".
Items with Category=Education (should) appear in the top-level "Edutainment" menu.
I've checked redhat-menus and indeed there should be such a category. I guess I have a mess because this system is upgraded all the way from RHL 7.3 (7.3->FC1- >FC2->FC3->FC4). I'll clean my mess up. ;-) Sorry for the useless bug report.
In case anybody has the same problem: look in your ~/.config/menus for a stale kmenuedit-generated applications-kmenuedit.menu. Unfortunately, kmenuedit not only saves what you have changed (and I made a few changes back in the days to work around bugs like Kate not being shown in the menu, which are fixed now) but also a lot of things you haven't changed, which then don't get updated as the distribution gets upgraded. (~/.local/share/applications should also get cleaned up regularly, that's also written to by kmenuedit.) That solved my problem. So I can confirm the problem was on my side. Sorry for the noise.