Configuring Application Buttons
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Configuring Application Buttons

Every application starter has some preferences you can set from their context menu with Configure application nameButton.... Usually applications and folders have the same preferences as in Konqueror. Only the applications which are located in the K Menu (for experienced users: those which have a .desktop extension in the applnk folder) have a special kind of config dialog.

The General Tab

Here you can see some information about the application link. You can also choose an icon by clicking on the icon button . This may be useful if you want the icon on the panel behave different to the analog one in the K Menu.

The Permissions Tab

Here you can see the permissions of the link file. Please refer to the manuals or handbooks of your operating system for more about permissions.

The Application Tab

You can set the behavior of the application when it's executed on this page.

Name

Here you can set the name of the application which will be shown in the tooltip.

Description

Here you can set an informative title which will be shown in the tooltip.

Note

Once the Description is set however, it alone will be shown in the tooltip.

Comment

See Description.

Note

If you set a Name and a Comment, they will be shown as tooltips of the start icons in the style “Name - Comment”.

Command

Usually, there is only the name of the binary that has to be started when clicking on the icon. You can search for another application to be started by clicking the Browse... button and/or add special command line parameters to the application.

Work path

Not yet written

Supported file types:

In this section you can choose what kinds of filetypes are handled by this application. Please refer to Konqueror handbook for more about this.

Advanced Options

This button allows for further configuration of the application to be run.

Run in terminal

If this box is checked, the application will be executed in a terminal window. You can also add special Terminal options.

Run as different user

Checking this option will let the application start with the permission of the user you typed in the field Username. You will be prompted for the user's password on application start. This option may be very useful if you want to start some applications as superuser.

Enable launch feedback

If this box is checked, this will display feedback when an application icon is clicked with the left mouse button.

Place in system tray

When checked, the application's icon will show up in the panel system tray. You will then be able to hide or show the application by clicking on the system tray icon. Clicking on it using the right mouse button will allow also you to undock, or quit the application.

DCOP registration

Not yet written

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