Solved: No context (right-click) menu items in KDE4

[fuscata]

I had KDE3 (Kubuntu) installed and later installed KDE4 alongside KDE3. Under this setup BC worked fine in both KDE3 and KDE4 -- the "Select left side to compare" and "Compare to ..." right-click actions worked perfectly.

However, when I did a fresh install of Kubuntu 9.10 with KDE4, the BC context menu items were not there. The cause: When I installed KDE4 only, its configuration was in ~/.kde rather than in ~/.kde4.

I got it working by following these steps:

1) Move ~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/beyondcompare_compare.desktop to ~/.kde/share/kde4/services/

2) Edit /usr/local/lib/beyondcompare/kde_context_menu:

old, starting around line #37:

if [ "$KDE_SESSION_VERSION" = "4" ]; then
	rm -f "$HOME/.kde4/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus/beyondcompare.desktop"
	DESKTOPFILE_COMPARE="$HOME/.kde4/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus/$DESKTOPFILE_COMPARE"
	DESKTOPFILE_MORE="$HOME/.kde4/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus/$DESKTOPFILE_MORE"
	DESKTOPFILE_SELECT="$HOME/.kde4/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus/$DESKTOPFILE_SELECT"
	TYPE="Type=Service"
	SERVICETYPES="ServiceTypes=KonqPopupMenu/Plugin,"

new:

if [ "$KDE_SESSION_VERSION" = "4" ]; then
        rm -f "$HOME/.kde/share/kde4/services/beyondcompare.desktop"
        DESKTOPFILE_COMPARE="$HOME/.kde/share/kde4/services/$DESKTOPFILE_COMPARE"
        DESKTOPFILE_MORE="$HOME/.kde/share/kde4/services/$DESKTOPFILE_MORE"
        DESKTOPFILE_SELECT="$HOME/.kde/share/kde4/services/$DESKTOPFILE_SELECT"
        TYPE="Type=Service"
        SERVICETYPES="ServiceTypes=KonqPopupMenu/Plugin,"

[Aaron]

Thanks! It's always great to see customer solutions posted in our forums.

I'll pass this on to our developers as well.