On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 14:55, Volker Wysk <pf3@...> wrote: > Hello > > The synaptic package manager comes with two .desktop files: > > /usr/share/applications/synaptic.desktop > > /usr/share/applications/synaptic-kde.desktop > > The first one contains: > > NotShowIn=KDE; > > The second one: > > OnlyShowIn=KDE; > > Calling synaptic in the application menu calls the first one (the two > program names/menu entries are identical). A broken root password entry box > appears - the path of the executable which should be called with root > privileges is empty. > > I'm wondering if the NotShowIn/OnlyShowIn directives are the cause of the > problem. I've experimented in adding "Trinity;" to "KDE;", but without > success. > > Does anyone know what this means? > That just tells the XDG menu system (your menus) where to show the corresponding desktop entries. We use "KDE", not "Trinity" at the moment. -- later, Robert Xu