> I notice files installed in my
> additional TDEDIRS directory are being ignored. Would
> somebody else confirm this behavior?
>
> My additional directory is placed first in the TDEDIRS
> variable string:
>
> TDEDIR=/opt/trinity
> TDEDIRS=/usr/local/tde-mods:/opt/trinity
>
> I noticed this behavior a while ago because various
> mimetypes were not working as I reconfigured. Yesterday
> investigated further. I have Xfce installed on this system.
> I seldom use Xfce and even then only for comparative
> purposes. Yet yesterday, having "Mousepad" in my Konqueror
> popup menu for text editors finally rankled me. I copied the
> desktop file from /usr/share/applications to
> /usr/local/tde-mods/share/applications.
>
> In the mousepad.desktop file I added OnlyShowIn=XFCE;. I
> restarted the session and Mousepad remained in the popup
> menu.
>
> Curious, I edited the desktop file in
> /usr/share/applications, restarted the session, and Mousepad
> no longer populated the popup menu.
>
> Therefore TDE is recognizing the OnlyShowIn directive, but
> not those in my secondary TDEDIRS directory.
>
> Seems something is awry with using TDEDIRS. At this point I
> don't know whether the problem is me or the code.
>
> This same process works as expected in my KDE3 setup,
> (albeit using KDEDIRS).
>
> I appreciate further insight and help.

Additional evidence of incorrect behavior is items appearing in the system menu that are tagged with OnlyShowIn=XFCE;.

After some more testing, in my TDEDIRS directory I have many mimelnk desktop files to override the defaults. They are being adhered to and being used. For example. with TDEDIRS not being set, archived files will open directly in Konqueror as embedded files. With TDEDIRS being set and my TDEDIRS ark.desktop file overriding that behavior, an archived file opens in Ark rather than as embedded.

Therefore Trinity is using TDEDIRS. The problem then seems to be not always recognizing the OnlyShowIn key. Or not using that key correctly. Trinity recognized the change I made to the mousepad.desktop file in /usr/applications. Possibly then Trinity just does not recognize that key when in TDEDIRS?

I am deleting my ksycoca cache with these tests. So that is not the problem. :)

Darrell