On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 14:55, Volker Wysk pf3@volker-wysk.de wrote:

Hello

The synaptic package manager comes with two .desktop files:

/usr/share/applications/synaptic.desktop

/usr/share/applications/synaptic-kde.desktop

The first one contains:

NotShowIn=KDE;

The second one:

OnlyShowIn=KDE;

Calling synaptic in the application menu calls the first one (the two program names/menu entries are identical). A broken root password entry box appears - the path of the executable which should be called with root privileges is empty.

I'm wondering if the NotShowIn/OnlyShowIn directives are the cause of the problem. I've experimented in adding "Trinity;" to "KDE;", but without success.

Does anyone know what this means?

That just tells the XDG menu system (your menus) where to show the corresponding desktop entries. We use "KDE", not "Trinity" at the moment.