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    Red face Missing Wine menu in KDE

    I installed KDE ontop of Ubuntu and I've been using it insted of Gnome for some time
    and a few weeks ago I got into a bad mood with somebody and deleted my Wine
    menu to prove a point and now I want it back and I can't figure out how lol.

    So to the point; how do I get back the "Wine" menu in my K Menu?

    Thanks!

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    Re: Missing Wine menu in KDE

    Use the kdemenu editor and browse to each of the progrms you want to add to the menu. Be sure to save you settings before closing

    You can also try running kappfinder and see if it finds them.

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    Re: Missing Wine menu in KDE

    Quote Originally Posted by jrusso2 View Post
    Use the kdemenu editor and browse to each of the progrms you want to add to the menu. Be sure to save you settings before closing

    You can also try running kappfinder and see if it finds them.
    I already know about the menu editor but before Wine would automatically
    create the menu items during an installation and now it doesn't do that anymore
    and the Wine menu is gone altogether as I mentioned earlier, perhaps for that reason.

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    Re: Missing Wine menu in KDE

    i don't know about kde (using gnome) but in gnome when you manually delete a menu item like wine it writes an entry to /home/<user name>/.config/menus/applications.menu
    Code:
    <Name>wine-wine</Name>
    		<DirectoryDir>/home/doug/.local/share/desktop-directories</DirectoryDir>
    		<Deleted/>
    remove the <Deleted/>
    maybe kde does the same thing
    Last edited by mc4man; January 11th, 2008 at 05:55 PM.

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    Re: Missing Wine menu in KDE

    Quote Originally Posted by mc4man View Post
    i don't know about kde (using gnome) but in gnome when you manually delete a menu item like wine it writes an entry to /home/<user name>/.config/menus/applications.menu
    Code:
    <Name>wine-wine</Name>
    		<DirectoryDir>/home/doug/.local/share/desktop-directories</DirectoryDir>
    		<Deleted/>
    remove the <Deleted/>
    maybe kde does the same thing

    for 7.04 only
    try revert in gutsy
    Thanks, I tried your suggestion and it I was able to get my Wine menu back with KDE, even on Gutsy Gibbon.

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    Re: Missing Wine menu in KDE

    Quote Originally Posted by mc4man View Post
    i don't know about kde (using gnome) but in gnome when you manually delete a menu item like wine it writes an entry to /home/<user name>/.config/menus/applications.menu
    Code:
    <Name>wine-wine</Name>
    		<DirectoryDir>/home/doug/.local/share/desktop-directories</DirectoryDir>
    		<Deleted/>
    remove the <Deleted/>
    maybe kde does the same thing


    THANK YOU!!!
    This problem was driving me crazy.
    Your solution worked great on KDE 7.10gg
    =D>=D>=D>=D>=D>=D>=D>=D>

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    [SOLVED] Re: Missing Wine menu in GNOME / KDE?

    EDIT: This is for GNOME. Not tested on KDE

    This is swell and all, But what you're really looking for is not to have the Alacarte menu undeleted. It seems doing this doesn't re-associate the menu system with the new configuration of wine and therefore when you install anther wine app it doesn't show up (at least for me) in the menu. To remove everything you must remove the files and folders associated with wine in both:

    ~/.local/share/applications/
    ~/.local/share/desktop-directories/

    and removing the wine xml menu data from the previously mentioned file:

    ~/.config/menus/applications.menu

    Do this all after a :

    sudo apt-get remove --purge wine
    rm ~/.wine -R (or be leet and do " yes | rm ~/.wine -R " to be rid of all the questions)

    This should remove everything you care about so far as wine is concerned. Don't fret -- all is reconfigured (menus, .wine dir, cfg, etc...) when you:

    sudo apt-get install wine
    winecfg

    Tested under Gusty

    Enjoy!
    Last edited by Nakoma; March 7th, 2008 at 07:46 AM. Reason: Clarification

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    Re: [SOLVED] Re: Missing Wine menu in GNOME / KDE?

    cool. noted for next time

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    [SOLVED] Re: Missing Wine menu in KDE

    thanks a lot broo

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    Re: [SOLVED] Re: Missing Wine menu in GNOME / KDE?

    Quote Originally Posted by Nakoma View Post
    EDIT: This is for GNOME. Not tested on KDE

    This is swell and all, But what you're really looking for is not to have the Alacarte menu undeleted. It seems doing this doesn't re-associate the menu system with the new configuration of wine and therefore when you install anther wine app it doesn't show up (at least for me) in the menu. To remove everything you must remove the files and folders associated with wine in both:

    ~/.local/share/applications/
    ~/.local/share/desktop-directories/

    and removing the wine xml menu data from the previously mentioned file:

    ~/.config/menus/applications.menu

    Do this all after a :

    sudo apt-get remove --purge wine
    rm ~/.wine -R (or be leet and do " yes | rm ~/.wine -R " to be rid of all the questions)

    This should remove everything you care about so far as wine is concerned. Don't fret -- all is reconfigured (menus, .wine dir, cfg, etc...) when you:

    sudo apt-get install wine
    winecfg

    Tested under Gusty

    Enjoy!
    This sounds like it destroys everything I've ever installed/done in wine, and I'll have to install everything installed with wine again, not something I want to do.

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