In this example, we will add Firefox to the submenu.
Most applications can be added with Kappfinder, Firefox can usually be added that way, but was used for lack of a better example.
To start off, we need to open KMenuEdit, so mouse button on the menu, click to start KMenuEdit. After KMenuEdit has started, select as shown in picture below.
Once you have selected , click on ->, opening the New Item dialog, as shown below. Type the name of the program you want to add, in this case, type firefox
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Press return, and you should see something like the picture below in the main window.
Now lets fill in the Description:, in this case type Web Browser
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The description and name will be displayed on the menu as “Web Browser (Firefox)”.
firefox
.Following the command, you can have several place holders which will be replaced with actual values when the program is run:
%f - a single file name |
%F - a list of files; use for applications that can open several local files at once |
%u - a single URL |
%U - a list of URLs |
%d - the folder of a file to open |
%D - a list of folders |
%i - the icon |
%m - the mini icon |
%c - the caption |
For example: if you want to firefox to start your web browsing at www.kde.org - instead of firefox you would type firefox %u www.kde.org.
We would like to have a more creative icon, so we will click the generic icon sitting beside Name:. It will bring the Select Icon dialog which will let us choose the new icon, as shown below.
We choose the firefox icon from the list, and press return. Your finished screen should probably look something like the screenshot below.
Click ->, wait for the Updating System Configuration dialog to get finished, you should find Firefox in the menu submenu!
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