Solution, "open with" problem, with Dolphin.

[MiniMarmotaVorazYT]

If someone has the problem with "open with" on Dolphin.
First: sudo pacman -S archlinux-xdg-menu
and XDG_MENU_PREFIX=arch- kbuildsycoca6

Sorry, I dont speak English very well. But in this reddit is expleined:
https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1bd313p/dolphin_not_recognizing_file_associations/

[ashuotaku]

thank you, so much, it helped me a lot

[Andrjs]

For me with this method after a while, dolphin still has the "open with" problem.

I found a solution that work for me in this reddit post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1bd313p/comment/l1jinyf/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

kbuildsycoca6 --noincremental

If it does print this output -> "applications.menu" not found in QList("~/.config/menus", "/etc/xdg/menus"), you will need to get this file

sudo pacman -Sy archlinux-xdg-menu
sudo update-desktop-database
cd /etc/xdg/menus
ls
expected output -> "arch-applications.menu"
sudo mv arch-applications.menu applications.menu

[dieBakterie]

I don't have the problem and i've only downgraded to kservice5 5.115.0-1

[rubiin]

For me with this method after a while, dolphin still has the "open with" problem.

I found a solution that work for me in this reddit post: reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1bd313p/comment/l1jinyf/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

kbuildsycoca6 --noincremental

If it does print this output -> "applications.menu" not found in QList("~/.config/menus", "/etc/xdg/menus"), you will need to get this file

sudo pacman -Sy archlinux-xdg-menu sudo update-desktop-database cd /etc/xdg/menus ls expected output -> "arch-applications.menu" sudo mv arch-applications.menu applications.menu

This works, tested on my machine as well

[kRHYME7]

Comment 1 works but don't persist across reboots

To persist any changes

NOTE! This file: /etc/xdg/menus/arch-applications.menu should exist first
copy it to this directory
cp /etc/xdg/menus/*applications.menu ~/.config/menus/applications.menu

if this file does not exist, install sudo pacman -S archlinux-xdg-menu
then run kbuildsycoca6

this will give you errors like this

now just do this (User Level) ln -fs /etc/xdg/menus/*applications.menu ~/.config/menus/applications.menu

Edit: use symlinks

[rubiin]

This can be closed i guess

[kRHYME7]

Will pin this for a month I guess

[ashuotaku]

Comment 1 works but don't persist across reboots

To persist any changes

NOTE! This file: /etc/xdg/menus/arch-applications.menu should exist first copy it to this directory cp /etc/xdg/menus/*applications.menu ~/.config/menus/applications.menu

if this file does not exist, install sudo pacman -S archlinux-xdg-menu then run kbuildsycoca6

this will give you errors like this

now just do this cp /etc/xdg/menus/*applications.menu ~/.config/menus/applications.menu

I just created a symlink for that with this command:
sudo ln -sf arch-applications.menu applications.menu

[kRHYME7]

Hello, I tried to remove archlinux-xdg-menu just to see what really are the essential packages needed in fixing this.

Then just tried to fetch the application.menu file from kde repo.

curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KDE/plasma-workspace/master/menu/desktop/plasma-applications.menu -o $HOME/.config/menus/applications.menu

This works on my system. Can anyone here confirm

Oh do not forget to run kbuildsycoca6 --noincremental

[simplemachine-zz]

Hello, I tried to remove archlinux-xdg-menu just to see what really are the essential packages needed in fixing this.

Then just tried to fetch the application.menu file from kde repo.

curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KDE/plasma-workspace/master/menu/desktop/plasma-applications.menu -o $HOME/.config/menus/applications.menu

This works on my system. Can anyone here confirm

Yes. It works.

1- mkdir $HOME/.config/menus/

2- curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KDE/plasma-workspace/master/menu/desktop/plasma-applications.menu -o $HOME/.config/menus/applications.menu

3 - kbuildsycoca6

Clean solution!

[prasanthrangan]

Hey guys, I've uninstalled archlinux-xdg-menu and kservice5, just having the applications.menu config file resolves it.

[BrayanLope5]

Can confirm, just using the following steps worked for me with a kde installation and a hyprland installation in the same system.

1- mkdir $HOME/.config/menus/
2- curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KDE/plasma-workspace/master/menu/desktop/plasma-applications.menu -o $HOME/.config/menus/applications.menu

To make it easier on myself, after downloading, I added the file to my dot files so that it's automatically synced. This is not related to the problem, just thought I mentioned it.