3.29 KDE menu problem

[Jared Hecker]

I've just migrated an old laptop to Fedora 43 KDE spin.  As part of the migration, I tried to install 3.19.  When it failed to start, I went to the web site, downloaded 3.29, dnf-removed 3.19 and installed 3.29.  I probably should heve rebooted first :-(.

The app itself, started from the command line, works.  Unfortunately, I cannot get it to start from the menu.  I first thought there must be some cruft left over from 3.19, so I deleted the kde applications menu file and logged out and back in to rebuild it.  No joy.  I then inspected  /usr/share/applications/jutoh3.desktop:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Exec=jutoh3 %f
TryExec=jutoh3
Icon[en_GB]=jutoh3.png
Icon=jutoh3.png
Name[en_GB]=Jutoh 3
Name=Jutoh 3
GenericName=Ebook Editor
Comment=An ebook creation tool
MimeType=application/x-jutohproject;application/x-jutohscript;application/x-jutohsparch;
Patterns=*.jutoh;
X-MultipleArgs=false
StartupWMClass=Jutoh
Categories=Office;WordProcessor;GTK;

I see no obvious errors here.  The icon shows in the menu and can be pinned to the task manager.  I can start the application via CLI from any directory on the machine, so the executable is in the path.  Does anyone have any guidance to offer to correct this?  Previous versions (on previous OS vesions) have worked perfectly in this regard.

Thank you.

[Julian Smart]

Hi Jared,

Sorry about that. I've installed Fedora 43 KDE and can confirm that the .desktop file doesn't work. I used desktop-file-validate to check it for errors, and it complained about the Patterns key and icon extensions. Having corrected these, it still doesn't work. Any suggestions from seasoned Linux users welcome, and I'll also pore over the documentation to see what I'm doing wrong.

Regards,

Julian

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[Julian Smart]

Hi Jared,

I've found the bug: Exec and TryExec have the wrong absolute path, so these lines should read:

Exec=/usr/share/jutoh3/jutoh

TryExec=/usr/share/jutoh3/jutoh

That seems to work for me. Sorry about this - I'll fix it in the next release.

Regards,

Julian

On 05/03/2026 15:32, Jared Hecker wrote: