Am trying to get used to the new Desktop. Have recently installed new
software and find Icon is put into Applications > Recently Installed.
For example I have just installed KAudioCreator. How should I move the
icon into the Multimedia folder?
Have also just installed EasyTAG and can’t find the icon. Where would
that have been put?
Rightclick the ‘startmenu’ icon (either a blue square with a K on it, or
a familiar looking lizard) and select “Menu editor”.
As for the missing one, try simply typing easytag into a console if
that works you can add it in the same menu editor that allows you to
move things around.
If the command didn’t start it up then open yast, search for Easytag,
select it, and click the files tab at the bottom.
Look for a file ending in .desktop in the list. (TIP, rightclick,
select all, copy it over to kwrite and do a ctrl+f search for .desktop)
Pretty self explanatory once you see the menu editor.
You can search to see if the program has been added to kickoff by
using the search bar at the top of the kickoff menu (kickoff is the
start menu mentioned in the previous post).
openSUSE will normally add the program to kickoff automatically with
no need for you to do anything. Although, I have noticed with my last
KDE update that icons aren’t being added until I log off and back on
again. So try logging off and on to see if the program has been
automatically added. (There’s a bug about that ‘here’
(https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=401958))
Another good way to start programs is using ALT+F2. Then start
typing in the program name and krunner will bring the icon up for you.
You can also type the name of the application in the search box at the
top of the kicker start menu
/Geobb
Budgie2;1937331 Wrote:
> Am trying to get used to the new Desktop. Have recently installed new
> software and find Icon is put into Applications > Recently Installed.
> For example I have just installed KAudioCreator. How should I move the
> icon into the Multimedia folder?
>
> Have also just installed EasyTAG and can’t find the icon. Where would
> that have been put?
>
> Budgie2
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nzlbob23;1937376 Wrote:
> [snip]
> 2. openSUSE will normally add the program to kickoff automatically with
> no need for you to do anything. Although, I have noticed with my last
> KDE update that icons aren’t being added until I log off and back on
> again. So try logging off and on to see if the program has been
> automatically added. (There’s a bug about that ‘here’
> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=401958))
> [snip]
That was it! So many many thanks for that. I don’t expect I would
have found it out for myself for a while if at all!
Axeia;1937338 Wrote:
> Rightclick the ‘startmenu’ icon (either a blue square with a K on it, or
> a familiar looking lizard) and select “Menu editor”.[snip]
>
OK but I find it may not be necessary after all. My example above was
KAudiocreator and I installed it using Software Manager because it did
not appear to be installed from the outset.
On looking more closely at the Multimedia menu inorder to follow the
guidance kindly posted by you, I find that it appears to be installed
already but with a different icon (not the blue one which I recognise).
So have I my haste inadvertently installed a second copy of the same
software? How can this happen using Software Manager?
I ask because I do not want to set one up with my usual parameters and
then have a mix up by selecting the wrong instance in future. How
should I delete the “extra” copy if indeed that is what I have?
Budgie2;1938592 Wrote:
>
> On looking more closely at the Multimedia menu inorder to follow the
> guidance kindly posted by you, I find that it appears to be installed
> already but with a different icon (not the blue one which I recognise).
>
In KDE 4.1, if there’s only one application in a menu/submenu, clicking
on the menu’s icon will launch the application.
For example, if Amarok is the only item in Audio Player submenu in
Application -> Multimedia, clicking on Audio Player icon will launch
Amarok!
nzlbob23;1938593 Wrote:
> You probably just have two menu items pointing to the same program. Just
> delete one of them.
Hi. Problems on this thread all solved thansk. My question however
was because surely, if using Yast, you shouldn’t be able to install a
second copy.
Meanwhile and without any action from me other than opening
KAudioCreator using the icon in “Multimedia” menu, the new KAudioCreator
icon has vanished from the “Recently Installed” menu so now all is as it
should be.
Magic? or is there a system for moving stuff from “Recently Installed”
Beineri;1940574 Wrote:
> This SUSE-specific feature has not been removed, it’s just not ported
> yet for KDE 4.2 packages.
Thankfully I’ve not come across this ‘feature’ before, but I very much
hope I won’t. I often browse around the menu items to find things that
are sometimes placed in less obvious locations, and I would find it
pretty annoying if programs just got launched before I could decide if
it was a program I actually wanted.
gumb;1941301 Wrote:
> Thankfully I’ve not come across this ‘feature’ before, but I very much
> hope I won’t.
I assure you it will.
gumb;1941301 Wrote:
> I often browse around the menu items to find things that are sometimes
> placed in less obvious locations, and I would find it pretty annoying if
> programs just got launched before I could decide if it was a program I
> actually wanted.
Dunno what problem you have: you can see if something is a group or an
application entry.
> Dunno what problem you have: you can see if something is a group or an
> application entry.
Then perhaps I’m getting the wrong end of the stick. I can’t correlate
the above statement with this one:
freedguy;1939139 Wrote:
> In KDE 4.1, if there’s only one application in a menu/submenu, clicking
> on the menu’s icon will launch the application.
>
> For example, if Amarok is the only item in Audio Player submenu in
> Application -> Multimedia, clicking on Audio Player icon will launch
> Amarok!
Taking an example I’ve just encountered now, having installed Dragon
Player in KDE4.2 and found that it’s been put, rather strangely, in the
Multimedia/Audio Player group rather than Multimedia/Video Player where
I would have expected it (Bug?), if the only other thing in the video
group is Flash Player, the above comment would suggest that by merely
clicking on the ‘Video Player’ category, and before I can see what’s
actually in there, Flash Player will be launched whether I like it or
not, when what I was searching for was Dragon Player.
Perhaps your implication is something rather different? I realise that
I can reorganize my menu or launch programs via a search / krunner,
etc., but just from a usability point of view I can’t see how the above
is helpful.
Actually on further thinking I’m guessing that you are implying the
sub-sub menu containing Flash Player and whatever else wouldn’t even
appear, and the item would show in the parent menu instead, only without
the triangle indicator in order to distinguish it as an application and
not a group?
Having not actually witnessed this concept in action on my own machine
I can’t know for sure.
