Sort start menu items in KDE

[Goatmilk]

Ugh, and I'm back to my old pet peeve - the start menu. Guess it wasn't enough that I've totally wrecked MX Linux TWICE in my attempts to get my perfect start menu.

Anyways, here it goes:

As you can see, I'm halfway there now, having used K-Menu Editor to create my own categories and sort the stuff the way I want. Surprisingly enough, it survived several restarts, updates, upgrades etc., quite unlike my previous attempts. Must have done something right then.

What remains is the order the items are listed. I can move them around in K-Menu Editor all I want, back on the desktop they look like the picture above:
- Games, Graphics, Attic, Media, Studio, Settings, System, Utilities, Garage
when I want them like this:
- Garage, Studio, Graphics, Media, Utilities, System, Settings, Games, Attic

K-Menu Editor lets me sort the applications in a category either alphabetically or 'after description' (whatever that means I haven't figured out yet), and at least the alphabetical listing takes effect both within the editor and on the desktop. But there seems to be no way to sort the categories themselves.

Is there a config file somewhere? Preferably one that can be opened and edited in kwrite or kate, as I really, truly, absolutely HATE to fiddle around with nano or some such.


And yes, I know it's all utter nonsense in the eyes of most people, but ever since my first Windows I've wanted my desktops to look MY WAY, with every single pixel exactly where I wanted it to be and no icon out of place. Probably an obsessive-compulsive disorder or something...

As always, any help and every hint would be highly appreciated.

 

[wizardfromoz]

OK, if you want to confuse me, it's working, lol.

I thought you were on MX with the KDE?

Its Menu Editor has stuff like this

...quite customisable.

If

Guess it wasn't enough that I've totally wrecked MX Linux TWICE in my attempts to get my perfect start menu.

... you would be better served by using either of

• MX's own builtin System Restore app or
• Timeshift

before mucking around with important functionalites.

Let me know if I can be of help.

Chris

 

[Goatmilk]

That's the problem.

I am on MX Linux KDE, and I've found those options in Menu Editor - as said, I can sort them all I want within Menu Editor, save it, and when I toddle back to desktop, the desired order of the items simply does not show.


As for Snapshot and Timeshift, I've used both - just to find out that they never really worked as intended. Still remember both times I've wrecked MX, the backups saved BEFORE I've messed up 'restored' the mess created AFTER they were created. I ended up both times reinstalling the whole thing.

Now I just do what I always did in Windows: keep my stuff the hell out of C: - or at least as good as that can be done in Linux: put \home in an extra partition in hopes that if I wreck the system, I can reinstall while leaving \home alone. At least it said so on some Linux website I've read - guess I'll find out soon enough if it will work as intended.

I think that is one advantage in Windows - at least in the old Windows' I know, up to Win7 - that you could wreck the system on C: all you want: it simply wouldn't touch all the other drives with your personal stuff on. Not even the drive with all the portable programs. While I haven't wrecked an old Windows in decades, it was always good to know that I could have done it and nothing much would have happened.

That's still a bit jarring that Linux doesn't seem to offer such an option, or maybe I just haven't found it yet. While I still hope the separated \home partition might provide some similar security, I sometimes look at the files and dirs in Double Commander and see that stuff seems to be sneaking back and forth between home and root, totally getting intertwined. So I fear that in case of a wreck, the whole crap will go down in flames together, separate \home partition or not.

Well, guess that's what external hard drives are for.