> I'm looking for help with reorganizing the TDE menu when TDE and KDE4 menu are > installed concurrently. > > In a word: clutter. > > I'm getting ready to push a huge patch set that will help > liberate TDE using our own XDG registrations. That effort > will help avoid potential conflicts with KDE4. More to come > about that patch set (refer to bug report 892), but the > patch is looking very good at the moment. > > A while ago I filed bug report 977 (http://bugs.pearsoncomputing.net/show_bug.cgi?id=977). > Please read the bug report to understand the goal of moving > the KDE4 menu items. > > I want to create a separate KDE4 top-level menu and let the > KDE4 menu appear there. > > Although KDE4 apps are uniquely identified with a "[KDE4]" > text marker in the menu (created in > tdelibs/kio/kio/kservice.cpp), when TDE is installed > concurrently with KDE4 there is nonetheless some serious > menu clutter. Moving KDE4 menus to their own location would > reduce that clutter. Moving allows TDE to display its own > set of apps. Users decide which version of duplicate apps > they prefer, but moving the KDE4 menu establishes that the > user is running TDE. > > I'm thinking with the upcoming patch set that moving the > KDE4 menus probably is doable. Now is a good time to test > this while I finalize testing for the upcoming patch set. > > I have nominally tested adding a > <Not><Category>KDE<Category></Not> > set to prevent KDE4 items from appearing in a menu category. > That removes the KDE4 items from the main TDE menu and > reduces clutter. > > I'm struggling to get the KDE4 menu to appear by itself in > the top level. Basically I want to merge > /etc/kde/xdg/menus/applications.menu into the TDE > applications.menu. > > I appreciate any help. Although I have not found a way to create a top-level KDE4 menu, I found a way to create a separate KDE4 menu in each individual menu. Here is a sample screen shot: http://humanreadable.nfshost.com/trinity/build_logs/tde-menu-with-kde4.png Notice I temporarily patched tdelibs to not append the app name with "[KDE4]", which no longer is necessary with this new menu layout. When KDE4 is not installed then the Trinity menu looks normal, like this: http://humanreadable.nfshost.com/trinity/build_logs/tde-menu-no-kde4.png I appreciate comments! Darrell
