On 23/10/11 10:49, Harry Putnam wrote: > Scott Ferguson <prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com> writes: > > First, I've snipped the bulk of your input. It hit the mark and > very helpful, thank you. > > For some reason VB is under Utilities for me, rather than System.
:-) I *only* have the K Desktop Environment installed - you have many Desktop Environments installed [*1], so in your case the KDE menu "inherited" the application "categories" of an/other Desktop Environments (probably GNOME). > Other than that, I found everything I asked for. > > I've left your first comments below because it raised another > related point I wanted to get at. > > [...] > >>> A detailed example: >>> >>> An icon for Virtual Box appears in my `Favorites' >> >> It will also appear elsewhere (launcher => System => VirtualBox) >> Favourites is just a shortcut to the launcher entry. > > A word of explanation: I put VB under favorites my self. Here is > why. First it looked like a long job to find it by hand; [*1] Choice is a good thing, as you have so many choices - it must be a *very* good thing. Right? ;-p > so I used the search box to find it... I still could not determine > where it was in the menus. It's some times convenient to add "favourites" to either the panel or the "desktop" - in which case you can "hide" it in the menu - that will reduce the number of menu entries to trawl through. > Seems like something I should be able to > see from the `search' output (the path to the icon in the menus) A reasonable "wish" - probably just need to tweak the search plugin. > But since I couldn't and I didn't want to use search every time... I > drug it to `favorites' since that is the first thing that opens. If desktop widgets are unlocked - you also have the option of adding VirtualBox (or any application) to the panel or the desktop. Additionally, if you frequently use a particular VirtualBox session you can edit the link to point directly at the given session. eg. Unlock widgets, > > I say all that to point up the fact that (In my opinion) the path > information would often be nearly as useful as finding the item. It > seems a serious shortcoming to the menu `search' dialog, that it > does not provide the path (inside the menus) for the items it finds. Many users only have the KDE installed - so the menu has few entries. I usually disable the search and command window for general users. Only Applications show on the menu (even logout/shutdown is removed). It's fairly simple to "hide" menu entries - using either the "hide" option in kmenuedit, or when not available, put a . into the start of the menu entry name. As a general rule I like to remove any package that isn't needed - makes it easier to document, maintain and secure. And in most case the KDE default applications are sufficient (don't need 7 web browsers). I suspect your wish would be best as a capability (search plugin) rather than a default. One of the beauties of KDE4 is that the basic interface can be kept very simple without sacrificing the ability to drill down for extended choices. > > > PS - what does %F mean at the end of a command path, such as the > one for emacs23: /usr/bin/emacs23 %F. > > > You mean the exec line in the desktop file. = A list of files (eg. file0, file1, file2) The VirtualBox desktop file uses %U (in the exec line) which is a list of URLs. Cheers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ea8bfbb.9030...@gmail.com
