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Asked: 2013-05-09 01:33:19 +0800 CST

Does the Search field on the launcher in kde depend on Nepomuk?

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Does the search field on the application launcher depend on Nepomuk?

I had to disable Nepomuk on shared systems because it takes too much CPU and I/O and I have noticed that on some systems the search field for programs does not show newly installed programs. Does that function depend on Nepomuk file indexing?

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  1. By my knowledge

    By my knowledge the KDE is using the kbuildsycoca4 to build the KDE menu cache. The launchers are then using the cache to search and launch the programs.

    Searching...'update kde menu' -> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=64514

    If the KDE menu is not updating automatically you could try to run the kbuildsycoca4 from the Konsole.

    :~$ kbuildsycoca4 --help
Usage: kbuildsycoca4 [Qt-options] [KDE-options] [options] 

Rebuilds the system configuration cache.

Generic options:
  --help                    Show help about options
  --help-qt                 Show Qt specific options
  --help-kde                Show KDE specific options
  --help-all                Show all options
  --author                  Show author information
  -v, --version             Show version information
  --license                 Show license information
  --                        End of options

Options:
  --nosignal                Do not signal applications to update
  --noincremental           Disable incremental update, re-read everything
  --checkstamps             Check file timestamps
  --nocheckfiles            Disable checking files (dangerous)
  --global                  Create global database
  --menutest                Perform menu generation test run only
  --track <menu-id>         Track menu id for debug purposes

    Launchers

    The KDE has plenty of launchers: http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread.php?59851-KDE-Application-Launchers .

    The Mangonel advertise:

    Mangonel, a simple application launcher for KDE4.

    Mangonel is intended as a light weight replacement for the, in my view bloated and slow, standard KRunner...

    The Mangonel is available from the Ubuntu repositories: http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=mangonel&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all

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