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Wednesday, March 9th 2005, 8:48am

Copying Kmenu content

I have created a user account, lets say operator1, and manually edited KMenu to to suit operator needs. I created menu with kmenuedit program. Now I want to create a new account, operator2, and this new operator2 should have equal menu as operator1.

Is there a way to copy menu content from one user account to another?

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Wednesday, March 9th 2005, 8:25pm

I think it stores the changes in .local/share somewhere

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Thursday, March 10th 2005, 8:20am

Yes! I agree it propably saves changes somewhere.

Now we just have to dig out where the somewhere is located.

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Thursday, March 10th 2005, 2:45pm

I don't know if KMenuEdit works with old KDE structures or the new freedesktop.org standard ones.

KDE >= 3.2 should do the latter, the standard location for menu data is .local/share/applications but this can be changed by certain environment variables.

Check the menu-spec and xdg-directory spec on standards.freedesktop.org

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Friday, March 11th 2005, 8:58am

I think it depends on your distro. However for SuSE the settings for an user are in ~/.kde/share/applnk whether the standard menu is in /opt/kde3/share/applnk

The user directory only stores different entries from the ones in the standard dir.

Hope I've understood your question
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Monday, March 14th 2005, 3:58pm

That was it!

I just copied .kde/share directory, made some file owner changes and now I have two user accounts with similar desktop environment.

This was done in RedHat WS3.

Thank you guys!

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