[solved] Copying Application Launcher items to different system?

[doctordruidphd]

I am running two systems - kubuntu 9.04 and 9.10. Since I set up the 9.10 system, I have done a lot of software installing with wine. The .wine directories are in a volume accessible by both systems, but the home directory itself is not, and that's a good thing, because parts of kde4.2 and kde4.3 don't like each others configuration files at all. So, what I want to do is copy the menu entries for the wine items I have set up from the 9.04 to the 9.10. I did some poking around, and it doesn't look like it will be simple. Would be nice if I could also copy the entries for gnome (as I have both desktops installed). Any pointers on how the menu system is set up?
I did find a posting on the ubuntu site that says to copy the contents of /usr/share/menu, but that's not it -- there's nothing related to wine or the programs installed with it there.

[Rog131]

Re: Copying Application Launcher items to different system?

SHORT

Maybe:

.desktop files from the ~/.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/ and .menu files from the ~/.config/menus/applications-merged/


LONG

The Menu system

Many KDE actions are "guided" by the .desktop files > Topic: GtoK: .desktop files. The K-menu is reading information from the .desktop files (kbuildsycoca / kbuildsycoca4).


Systemwide (for all users)
(where the .desktop files are)

Qt and GTK applications:
/usr/share/applications/

and the KDE is using:
/usr/share/applications/kde/ (KDE 3.5 apps)
/usr/share/applications/kde4/ (KDE 4 apps)


KDE Menu editor

The Menu Editor is a gui to make and edit the .desktop files.

It saves the information to the ~/.local/share/applications/ (.desktop files) and to the ~/.config/menus/ (menu structure - what to exclude and include).


For a user
(where the .desktop files are)

~/.local/share/applications/

and the Wine is using:
~/.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/
and the .menu files are
~/.config/menus/applications-merged/


/usr/share/menu/

Information:
/usr/share/menu/README
and
/usr/share/doc/menu/html/index.html

[doctordruidphd]

Re: Copying Application Launcher items to different system?

Thanks. That's the information I need to experiment.