[Bug 88426] Re: kmenuedit does not save changes.

[Mart]

I am happy to announce that I have managed to fix this bug! ;)

Problem: kmenuedit does not save newly created desktop menu items.

Cause: The directory which holds the user .desktop files
(~/.local/share/applications) is owned by the root user and group after
a fresh installation of Kubuntu Feisty Fawn Final. This directory should
be owned by the user, not root.

Solution (Fix): The temporary fix is the following command in a console: "sudo chown -R <USERNAME>: ~/.local/share/applications"
<USERNAME> should be replaced with the system usern/group name of the current system user and also note the colon trailing immediately afterwards. If your system user/group name is Mart (as in my case), the command would be: sudo chown -R mart: ~/.local/share/applications
The command sets both the user and group ownership of the ~/.local/share/applications directory to your system user and group respectively. This command must be ran as root so triple-check the command is correct before executing it!

The permanent fix is to have the ~/.local/share/applications directory
user and group ownership set to the system user and group respectively
on a fresh installation of Kubuntu Feisty Fawn.

Notes: ~/.local/share/mime is also owned by root. Although this doesn't
effect this bug, it might be causing other problems. Should the mime
directory also be owned by the system user/group?

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kmenuedit does not save changes.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/88426
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