New programs not showing up in menu.

[Orcris]

When I install new programs in Kubuntu, they don't show up in the menu. I've recently tried installing Code::Blocks and Opera, and neither of them are appearing. I opened KMenuEdit, and created an entry for Opera, but when I clicked save, the progress bar for saving reset to 0 whenever it reached 90%. The terminal output it gave while saving is this:

kmenuedit(18316)/kdecore (services) KServicePrivate::init: The desktop entry file  "/home/andrew/.local/share/applications/Opera.desktop"  has Type= "Application"  but no Exec line 

Could not resolve property : pattern6664
Could not resolve property : linearGradient4636
Could not resolve property : linearGradient4592
Could not resolve property : linearGradient4247
Could not resolve property : linearGradient11897
Could not resolve property : linearGradient11897
couldn't create image from  "" 
Could not resolve property : linearGradient5167

Here is the contents of Opera.desktop:

[Desktop Entry]
Comment=
Exec=opera
GenericName=Web Browser
Icon=opera-browser
Name=Opera
NoDisplay=false
Path[$e]=
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=0
TerminalOptions=
Type=Application
X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
X-KDE-Username=

There is also a /usr/share/applications/opera-browser.desktop that was created automatically during the software installation that looks like this:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Version=1.0
Name=Opera
GenericName=Web browser
GenericName[bs]=Web preglednik
GenericName[de]=Web-Browser
GenericName[eo]=TTT-rigardilo
GenericName[es]=Navegador web
GenericName[et]=Veebibrauser
GenericName[eu]=Web arakatzailea
GenericName[fi]=WWW-selain
GenericName[fr]=Un navigateur web
GenericName[is]=Vafri
GenericName[it]=Browser Web
GenericName[nb]=Nettleser
GenericName[nl]=webbrowser
GenericName[nn]=Nettlesar
GenericName[pt]=Navegador Web
GenericName[pt_BR]=Navegador
GenericName[ro]=Navigator de web
GenericName[ru]=Веб-браузер
GenericName[sl]=Spletni brskalnik
GenericName[ven]=Buronza ya Webu
GenericName[xh]=Umkhangeli Zincwadi Zokubhaliweyo
GenericName[zu]=Umkhangeli zincwadi we Web
Comment=Fast and secure web browser and Internet suite
Icon=opera-browser
TryExec=/usr/bin/opera
Exec=/usr/bin/opera %U
Terminal=false
MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;text/vnd.wap.wml;text/wml;application/x-mimearchive;application/mime;application/xml;application/rss+xml;application/rdf+xml;image/svg+xml;application/x-opera-extension;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;x-scheme-handler/ftp;x-scheme-handler/mailto;video/ogg;audio/ogg;video/webm;image/webp;
Categories=Network;WebBrowser;
StartupNotify=true
X-AppInstall-Package=opera

Why aren't these programs appearing in the menu?

[vinnywright]

were these installed with muon?
have you tryed restarting the box and then checking for them in the menu

VINNY

[OneLine]

The KMenuEdit is editing and saving files to the:

~/.config/menus/ . The menu structure is saved to the applications-kmenuedit.menu xml file.
~/.local/share/applications/ . The application information is saved to the desktop files.

If you remove an application in the KMenuEdit then the applications-kmenuedit.menu will have a marking to hide the application
i.e. the applications-kmenuedit.menu with:

 <Menu>
  <Name>.hidden</Name>
  <Include>
   <Filename>avidemux-qt.desktop</Filename>
  </Include>

Will hide the Avidemux from the menu.

If the KDE can't read the ~/.config/menus/applications-kmenuedit.menu - a malformed applications-kmenuedit.menu - then it is possible that some application will be missing. A fix is to edit/rename/remove the ~/.config/menus/applications-kmenuedit.menu.

[Orcris]

My ~/.config/menus/applications-kmenuedit.menu looks like this:

<!DOCTYPE Menu PUBLIC '-//freedesktop//DTD Menu 1.0//EN' 'http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/menu-spec/1.0/menu.dtd'>
<Menu>
 <Menu>
  <Name>Internet</Name>
  <Include>
   <Filename>Opera.desktop</Filename>
   <Filename>Opera-2.desktop</Filename>
  </Include>
  <Layout>
   <Merge type="files"/>
   <Filename>Opera-2.desktop</Filename>
   <Merge type="menus"/>
   <Menuname>Terminal</Menuname>
   <Filename>kde4-akregator.desktop</Filename>
   <Filename>kde4-blogilo.desktop</Filename>
   <Filename>kde4-bluedevil-monolithic.desktop</Filename>
   <Filename>kde4-choqok.desktop</Filename>
   <Filename>firefox.desktop</Filename>
   <Filename>google-chrome.desktop</Filename>
   <Filename>kde4-importwizard.desktop</Filename>
   <Filename>kde4-ktp-contactlist.desktop</Filename>
   <Filename>kde4-ktp-log-viewer.desktop</Filename>
   <Filename>kde4-kget.desktop</Filename>
   <Filename>kde4-KMail2.desktop</Filename>
   <Filename>kde4-KNode.desktop</Filename>
   <Filename>kde4-konqbrowser.desktop</Filename>
   <Filename>kde4-konversation.desktop</Filename>
   <Filename>kde4-kopete.desktop</Filename>
   <Filename>kde4-Kppp.desktop</Filename>
   <Filename>kde4-krdc.desktop</Filename>
   <Filename>kde4-krfb.desktop</Filename>
   <Filename>kde4-ktorrent.desktop</Filename>
   <Filename>kde4-quassel.desktop</Filename>
   <Filename>kde4-rekonq.desktop</Filename>
   <Separator/>
   <Menuname>More</Menuname>
  </Layout>
 </Menu>
</Menu>

I think that Opera is in there twice because, after the first time KMenuEdit failed to create it, I tried again. Also, I installed Opera from a .deb file and Code::Blocks from Muon.

[OneLine]

I tried with your applications-kmenuedit.menu - everything seems to work.

When searching with the "kmenuedit KServicePrivate The desktop entry file has Type= Application but no Exec line" - two hits:

- https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=283658
- https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=284519

They are both with the KDE 4.7 but you could check the workarounds. Especially the Bug 284519: kmenuedit silently fails to modify the menu when ~/.local directory file permissions are wrong. Are your directories owned by root or by your username ?