Is it possible to have 'quicklists' for desktop shortcuts in KDE?

I mean quicklists as they are implemented in the Unity Taskbar and under Windows as jumplists. I know “Icon-Only Task Manager” widget implements the Unity API as per Desktop file standards.
Is it implemented in KDE? If not, will it be present in Plasma 5? How can I achieve similar functionality?

Thanks a lot.

I’m not 100% clear what you mean as I don’t use Unity. However if you mean how can I add icons to the task bar then that is easy in KDE. Simply go to the start icon find the application you want and right click with the mouse and select add to panel.

I hope this helps.

BTW you can add multiple panels if you want maybe at the top or sides then add all the icons you can stand :stuck_out_tongue:

Another widget that you may find useful is Quicklaunch. I used it on KDE 4.
If you are trying Plasma 5 I tried as gogalthorp did but later i just put a bunch of desktop icons really close together.
I don’t if that’s what you’re after as the largest portion of us here are into KDE. YMMV

While I really appreciate you took the time to post here, it is clear that you didn’t even bothered to do a google search for ‘unity quicklists’ given you are all missing the point.
If it is in the title and you don’t know what that is…then why bother? really.
And if the case was that I wasn’t clear enough then say it, but to post irrelevant answers just messes the post in general.

Examples of:

-Unity quicklists
http://images.maketecheasier.com/2011/05/unity-firefox.jpg

-Windows jump lists:
http://s.techairlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Firefox-Jump-List.jpg

OK KDE is NOT Unity things are not exactly the same. So you do not get exactly the same stuff. I use the old style menu. Don’t like the new menu it takes too many clicks. You can change it by unlocking the widgets and right click the gecko and select the old style. Also it is in the widgets list. This has a last used list at the top. Maybe that is close enough???

Note that we are all volunteers here why should we take our time to look thing up for you. Just tell use what you want don’t assume anyone here has ever run Ubuntu. To be honest I still not sure what you want here having never used Unity. If you want unity go back to Ubuntu. KDE does not work like Unity so it does not have a one to one correspondence to the unity features.

Clearly still you have no idea what it is that I am talking about, nevertheless you keep posting… If you are a volunteer (like me) I am not asking you to look up ANYTHING, I just expect you to have some common sense and that if you are ignorant about the topic of the post, then just don’t post a reply. That is not to much to ask to a volunteer I think.

PS: I will just ignore the

which is one: obvious, but moreover, irrelevant to my post.

PS2: “quicklists” (that thing you haven’t looked up just yet) is not an Ubuntu exclusive feature (or Windows, because I just showed you that Windows also implements them- or sort of). Quicklists are also part of the .desktop file specification Desktop Entry Specification to which KDE adheres.

I have not seen the point of it yet because I still don’t know what they do but maybe this is what you want??

http://www.webupd8.org/2011/11/unity-like-launcher-for-kde-icon-tasks.html

I did… I find your attitude quite rude so as far as I’m concerned, I will not help you further.

Do you mean “context menus” that usually appear when you right-click something in KDE, for example?

Apparently it a pre load utility which means that the program is pre loaded thus save a small amount of time.

There is a generic program called preload that does this also.

On Tue, 07 Jul 2015 21:06:01 +0000, harogaston wrote:

> Clearly still you have no idea what it is that I am talking about,
> nevertheless you keep posting… If you are a volunteer (like me) I am
> not asking you to look up ANYTHING, I just expect you to have some
> common sense and that if you are ignorant about the topic of the post,
> then just don’t post a reply. That is not to much to ask to a volunteer
> I think.

Two things:

  1. Welcome to the openSUSE forums.

  2. Everyone who answers questions here is a volunteer. The staff here
    are also all volunteers, however the staff is responsible for moderating
    threads. If you have a problem with a thread, we ask that you report the
    problem post rather than diving into a discussion about how you would run
    things if you were in charge.

I realize you’re new here, but I would suggest that taking an approach
that may come across as rude (I can see how the above may, and I can see
how it maybe isn’t intended that way) would be counterproductive to
getting help.

People answer questions for a number of reasons - and one of those
reasons is to learn more about what’s being asked about. That’s one of
those “community” things - everyone helps everyone else.

So when someone follows up with less than perfect knowledge about the
topic you’re asking about, instead of chastising them, help them
understand what you’re asking about so they can help you - they might
learn about something that you find useful, and you might get an answer
to the question you’re asking - everyone wins.

That’s what being a community is all about.

Jim


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