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
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)
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.
Many thanks for the replies. Much to get used to after Suse 10.0. I will try the above suggestions and revert if I have no luck.
Budgie2
You can also type the name of the application in the search box at the top of the kicker start menu
/Geobb
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!
Thanks again.
Budgie2
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?
Regards,
Budgie2
You probably just have two menu items pointing to the same program. Just delete one of them.
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!
They’ve removed this feature/bug in KDE 4.2.
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”
Budgie2
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.
Only stuff installed within the iirc last two days is shown as “Recently Installed”.
I assure you it will. 
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:
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.