Comment 0 for bug 297195

Binary package hint: kdelibs5-data

Since Gnome uses the default applications.menu to house its menu structure, KDE is forced to use an alternate prefix like kde4-applications.menu, to prevent menu collisions.

To make this happen, a simple patch was introduced to tell KDE to use the new prefix. Unfortunately, the inadvertant side effect is that the prefix is inherited, and used to for DefaultMergeDirs, which means applications-merged never gets searched for new menu entries.

A proper fix needs to be introduced to allow KDE to use the DefaultMergeDirs directive correctly.

For now, if you manually insert a MergeDir directive into the kde4-applications.menu, pointing at applications-merged, things will work, but this is not the correct way as the spec is stil broken at this point.