`kcmshell` modules relation with `/usr/share/applications`
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A Little Background
I am using Plasma V 5.5.5, Qt V 5.5.1, Kernel 4.4.0-116, in a 64Bits OS with Kubuntu 16.04.
I like the Phonon GUI to test Right and Left speakers separately, so I said, let's add it to the Favorites panel in the KDE dash: a simple drag and drop would do it. I did it, obtaining the following as a response when clicking the icon in the Favorites Panel:
There had to be a workaround, I decided to go to the plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc file, located at /home/toquica/.config, where I would look for the favoritesApps line (the one starting with [Containments][131][Applets][149][Configuration][General] because I am using the Application Dashboard option for the dash) and I actually found the entry: kcm_phonon.desktop.
A Problem to a Solution
I then decided to go to /usr/share/applications and create the file kcm_phonon.desktop with some information like:
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Phonon Volume Control
GenericName=Test Audio
Comment=Test and adjust volume
Exec=kcmshell5 kcm_phonon
Icon=multimedia-volume-control
StartupNotify=true
Type=Application
Categories=AudioVideo;Audio;Volume;
NoDisplay=true
To my surprise this created a huge problem from what I thought it would be a solution, suddenly the command kcmshell4 kcm_phonon stopped working with the message Could not find module 'kcm_phonon'. See kcmshell5 --list for the full list of modules., and the kcmshell5 --list command didn't actually find the kcm_phonon module, neither the entry Audio and Video would appear in the dash nor under Multimedia in the System Settings window.
I reinstalled several things (when I say several, I mean like around 20 packages, I honestly didn't know what to do, Google doesn't provide too much information about it) and I then decided to delete the file, to my surprise kcmshell4 kcm_phonon worked again.
Something weird is that when issuing the command locate kcm_phonon, there is an output /usr/share/applications/kcm_phonon.desktop (even after the file was completely deleted, no hidden files are in that folder, root access doesn't make any difference), but again if I create it, everything stops working again.
The Question
Why can't kcmshell find a module when a desktop file with the same name is created in the applications folder?
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A Little Background
I am using Plasma V 5.5.5, Qt V 5.5.1, Kernel 4.4.0-116, in a 64Bits OS with Kubuntu 16.04.
I like the Phonon GUI to test Right and Left speakers separately, so I said, let's add it to the Favorites panel in the KDE dash: a simple drag and drop would do it. I did it, obtaining the following as a response when clicking the icon in the Favorites Panel:
There had to be a workaround, I decided to go to the plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc file, located at /home/toquica/.config, where I would look for the favoritesApps line (the one starting with [Containments][131][Applets][149][Configuration][General] because I am using the Application Dashboard option for the dash) and I actually found the entry: kcm_phonon.desktop.
A Problem to a Solution
I then decided to go to /usr/share/applications and create the file kcm_phonon.desktop with some information like:
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Phonon Volume Control
GenericName=Test Audio
Comment=Test and adjust volume
Exec=kcmshell5 kcm_phonon
Icon=multimedia-volume-control
StartupNotify=true
Type=Application
Categories=AudioVideo;Audio;Volume;
NoDisplay=true
To my surprise this created a huge problem from what I thought it would be a solution, suddenly the command kcmshell4 kcm_phonon stopped working with the message Could not find module 'kcm_phonon'. See kcmshell5 --list for the full list of modules., and the kcmshell5 --list command didn't actually find the kcm_phonon module, neither the entry Audio and Video would appear in the dash nor under Multimedia in the System Settings window.
I reinstalled several things (when I say several, I mean like around 20 packages, I honestly didn't know what to do, Google doesn't provide too much information about it) and I then decided to delete the file, to my surprise kcmshell4 kcm_phonon worked again.
Something weird is that when issuing the command locate kcm_phonon, there is an output /usr/share/applications/kcm_phonon.desktop (even after the file was completely deleted, no hidden files are in that folder, root access doesn't make any difference), but again if I create it, everything stops working again.
The Question
Why can't kcmshell find a module when a desktop file with the same name is created in the applications folder?
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A Little Background
I am using Plasma V 5.5.5, Qt V 5.5.1, Kernel 4.4.0-116, in a 64Bits OS with Kubuntu 16.04.
I like the Phonon GUI to test Right and Left speakers separately, so I said, let's add it to the Favorites panel in the KDE dash: a simple drag and drop would do it. I did it, obtaining the following as a response when clicking the icon in the Favorites Panel:
There had to be a workaround, I decided to go to the plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc file, located at /home/toquica/.config, where I would look for the favoritesApps line (the one starting with [Containments][131][Applets][149][Configuration][General] because I am using the Application Dashboard option for the dash) and I actually found the entry: kcm_phonon.desktop.
A Problem to a Solution
I then decided to go to /usr/share/applications and create the file kcm_phonon.desktop with some information like:
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Phonon Volume Control
GenericName=Test Audio
Comment=Test and adjust volume
Exec=kcmshell5 kcm_phonon
Icon=multimedia-volume-control
StartupNotify=true
Type=Application
Categories=AudioVideo;Audio;Volume;
NoDisplay=true
To my surprise this created a huge problem from what I thought it would be a solution, suddenly the command kcmshell4 kcm_phonon stopped working with the message Could not find module 'kcm_phonon'. See kcmshell5 --list for the full list of modules., and the kcmshell5 --list command didn't actually find the kcm_phonon module, neither the entry Audio and Video would appear in the dash nor under Multimedia in the System Settings window.
I reinstalled several things (when I say several, I mean like around 20 packages, I honestly didn't know what to do, Google doesn't provide too much information about it) and I then decided to delete the file, to my surprise kcmshell4 kcm_phonon worked again.
Something weird is that when issuing the command locate kcm_phonon, there is an output /usr/share/applications/kcm_phonon.desktop (even after the file was completely deleted, no hidden files are in that folder, root access doesn't make any difference), but again if I create it, everything stops working again.
The Question
Why can't kcmshell find a module when a desktop file with the same name is created in the applications folder?
sound kubuntu kde kde-apps
asked Feb 27 at 18:28
Hans
7461035
A Little Background
I am using Plasma V 5.5.5, Qt V 5.5.1, Kernel 4.4.0-116, in a 64Bits OS with Kubuntu 16.04.
I like the Phonon GUI to test Right and Left speakers separately, so I said, let's add it to the Favorites panel in the KDE dash: a simple drag and drop would do it. I did it, obtaining the following as a response when clicking the icon in the Favorites Panel:
There had to be a workaround, I decided to go to the plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc file, located at /home/toquica/.config, where I would look for the favoritesApps line (the one starting with [Containments][131][Applets][149][Configuration][General] because I am using the Application Dashboard option for the dash) and I actually found the entry: kcm_phonon.desktop.
A Problem to a Solution
I then decided to go to /usr/share/applications and create the file kcm_phonon.desktop with some information like:
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Phonon Volume Control
GenericName=Test Audio
Comment=Test and adjust volume
Exec=kcmshell5 kcm_phonon
Icon=multimedia-volume-control
StartupNotify=true
Type=Application
Categories=AudioVideo;Audio;Volume;
NoDisplay=true
To my surprise this created a huge problem from what I thought it would be a solution, suddenly the command kcmshell4 kcm_phonon stopped working with the message Could not find module 'kcm_phonon'. See kcmshell5 --list for the full list of modules., and the kcmshell5 --list command didn't actually find the kcm_phonon module, neither the entry Audio and Video would appear in the dash nor under Multimedia in the System Settings window.
I reinstalled several things (when I say several, I mean like around 20 packages, I honestly didn't know what to do, Google doesn't provide too much information about it) and I then decided to delete the file, to my surprise kcmshell4 kcm_phonon worked again.
Something weird is that when issuing the command locate kcm_phonon, there is an output /usr/share/applications/kcm_phonon.desktop (even after the file was completely deleted, no hidden files are in that folder, root access doesn't make any difference), but again if I create it, everything stops working again.
The Question
Why can't kcmshell find a module when a desktop file with the same name is created in the applications folder?
sound kubuntu kde kde-apps
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asked Feb 27 at 18:28
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