Old thread but the subject is still valid. For some months ago updating KDE to 3.5.8 broke our application. We use menus which have autogenerated items and it worked fine until... And now people have a crashing application because it's packaged with distributions and KDE has been automatically updated.

That was easy enough to fix because our data didn't use ampersand, but now I'm running into this same problem with tab names. The data is user defined and we should write extra code to handle the ampersands - and what happens if KDE is fixed again? Does someone has a solution?