KDE menu items XDG_DATA

Max Brazhnikov makc at freebsd.org
Mon Feb 3 20:34:14 UTC 2014


On Mon, 03 Feb 2014 10:09:16 -0800 Beeblebrox wrote:
> Hello. I am using e17 as desktop environment. Gnome-related icons show up in
> menu, but many KDE related icons do not. The solution seems to be to set in
> /etc/csh.cshrc:
> 
> setenv XDG_DATA_DIRS '/usr/share /usr/local/share /usr/local/kde4/share/'
> setenv XDG_DATA_HOME /usr/local/kde4/share
> 
> While these entries do make the KDE icons appear in the menu, most of the
> Gnome and even non-gnome icons disappear.
> 
> Is there any setting where both gnome + KDE icons show up in menus?

Look at /usr/local/kde4/env/xdg-env.sh and you'll find all you need.

Btw, next KDE update (coming soon!) we move all kde stuff to default
prefix (/usr/local), so all these tweaks will be unneeded.

Max


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