https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465646
Nate Graham <n...@kde.org> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Summary|Add UI affordance for |Run kbuildsycoca5
|reindexing the menu |automatically upon manual
| |changes to files in
| |~/.local/share/applications
Ever confirmed|0 |1
CC| |kdelibs-b...@kde.org
Status|NEEDSINFO |CONFIRMED
Component|general |general
Version|5.24.4 |5.103.0
Severity|normal |wishlist
Resolution|WAITINGFORINFO |---
Assignee|plasma-b...@kde.org |fa...@kde.org
Product|kmenuedit |frameworks-kded
--- Comment #3 from Nate Graham <n...@kde.org> ---
I think this situation falls into the "I know just enough to hurt myself"
valley. :)
If you know the technical details about what .desktop files are and the hidden
location where they live, it's expected that you also know to run kbuildsycoca5
manually (or just restart the system) after making changes. If you don't know
to do that, then the expected UX is to use KMenuEdit, which handles running
kbuildsycoca5 for you.
One think we might be able to do is to watch for manual changes to
~/.local/share/applications such that kbuildsycoca5 gets run automatically when
there are any changes. We already do something like this in kded for new icons,
so maybe it would be reasonable to do it for .desktop files too. Moving to KDED
for evaluation.
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