Solved Arch KDE Application Launcher not Searching ~/.local/share/applications

[malonn]

The gist is in the thread title. I'm on the latest release of Arch, and my application launcher (start menu) does not seem to be looking in "$HOME/.local/share/applications" for desktop entries. I have modified several, and these are not being reflected in my launcher. I have used the bundled KMenuEdit, but I want it to work according to freedesktop.org specs (seems it isn't). I have modified my bash.bashrc file to include "~/.local/share" as a path to XDG_DATA_DIRS (which works when using printenv). I have set a script (conforming to the KDE specs) in "~/.config/plasma-workspace/env" (though, now that I think of it—and I don't if this matters—I didn't make it executable). I have also updated mime cache by running

update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/applications

None of the preceding fixes the issue. In the past (on other distros), I did not have this issue. Any ideas how to solve this?

 

[malonn]

Those who persist, huh... I figured it out. All works as intended, the problem was with the "Category" key in the .desktop file. It appears some categories span multiple menus. In my case, I wanted to remove an entry from the "Utilities" menu, well another value was used for the "Utilities" menu besides just "Utilities;". All good now.