Ubuntu
kdelibs package

  1. Bug #281679
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 281679

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Mitch Golden (mgolden) wrote :

This is actually a general problem with all KDE3.5 apps under KDE4.

The issue appears to be that there are separate directories /usr/share/applications/kde and /usr/share/applications/kde4, and the desktop files construct separate sycoca files. Since kfmclient.desktop is only installed in the kde4 directory, the KDE 3.5 apps can't find it in their sycoca.

A simple fix is just to make a symlink from the kde4 file into the kde directory. I.e:

cd /usr/share/applications/kde
sudo ln -S ../kde4/kfmclient* .
kbuildsycoca

and the problem disappears.

I will be filing a bug against Konqueror for this, but it afflicts all KDE4 services in KDE3.5 apps.