I've lost my BackTrack kmenu structure

[Pablo the Squirrel]

Hi, I've been running BT3 as a hard disk install for a couple of months, with a few little issues that I won't go into, but mostly pretty good.

recently I installed MinGW and some time after that I noticed that my kmenu had changed from the normal backtrack structure to another more generic structure with an entry for wine under which was MinGW and nothing else.

I did some googling and searched the forum but I didn't really know what I was looking for. (never played with the menus before) I found a suggestion on another forum to delete the .kde directory under root this of course made it worse, then I found a thread in here talking about .config/menus I did some playing around with that the stuff in applications-kmenuedit.menu seems to be all the right things in the right structure... but I'm at a bit of a loss now as to how to get it read...

any advice would be appreciated

[imported_Deathray]

The easy way to solve this problem would be to
copy the appropriate config files for KDE menu from a live BT3,
over to your hard disk install. Sorry I can't inform you as to
where these files are, as I have no idea myself :b .
But I'm sure it's possible.

Good luck

[Pablo the Squirrel]

Yeah... that's what I figured , but I' struggling to work out which ones they are...

I've done the whole /root/.kde directory and parts of /opt/kde/ but no joy...

[Pablo the Squirrel]

well, in case anyone else has the same problem and stumbles across this thread
I discovered a bunch of stuff about KDE menus and this site was very helpful

h t t p ://people.fruitsalad.org/phil/kde/userguide-tng/kde-menu.html (sorry for the formatting the n00b isn't allowed to post URL's)

but ultimately
in /etc/xdg/menus there was a file called applications.menu which wasn't in the live cd
I renamed this to applications.menu.bkp

and my menus were all good

YAY