When Konqueror is in File Manager mode, picking from the menu or from the context menu you get by mouse button clicking on a free area in a folder view gives you a submenu letting you create any of the following in the current folder:
This option is most useful if you want to create an icon that
will open a particular application. It opens a dialog box with three tabbed
pages. The first, General, is where you choose an icon and
the text that will appear with it. The second page,
Permissions, lets you select who can use or modify the
icon. In the Application page you must enter the Command that
will run the application, for example, kedit
to start up
the KEdit text editor. kedit /home/pam/todo.txt
would
open the file /home/pam/todo.txt
in KEdit. Advanced
options such as the file types which the application can open are also
available from this page.
To make the application icon appear on your desktop, create the link in
your ~/Desktop
folder (this may be
called something slightly different depending on how KDE was installed on
your system) or get to the
sub menu by
clicking on a free area of the desktop
instead of within Konqueror's window.
If you have a lot of specialized application links and don't want to
clutter up the desktop, then why not create them in your Applications
folder. You can get there in Konqueror by choosing
->. Then create a single icon
on your desktop to open your Applications folder, which is usually in
~/.kde/share/applnk
.
To put an application link icon into the panel, first create it in the Applications folder then drag the icon onto a clear area of the panel.
This lets you create an icon to open Konqueror at a
particular
folder or web page. As with
you can make the application icon appear on your desktop by creating the link
in
your ~/Desktop
folder or going to the
sub menu by right clicking on a free area of the
desktop. When you first create it the text shown with the icon will be the full
path or URL. You can change it by right clicking on the icon, selecting
and entering the preferred text in
the
General tab page.
Use this option to create an icon that will mount a floppy disk and open an instance of Konqueror showing the disk's contents. To unmount the disk when you have finished with it click on the icon and select . In practice it doesn't have to be a floppy disk but can be any hard disk or partition on your system that is not normally mounted. However, in most cases you will want to create the icon on your desktop.
This option is similar to but for a hard disk drive or partition.
This option is similar to but for a CD or DVD drive.
An easy way of creating a new (sub)folder.
Use this to create an ordinary, empty, text file. A dialog box will be opened for you to enter the name of your new file.
Creates a skeleton HTML source file. When
you
type the new file's name into the dialog box it is probably best to give
it a .html
extension to avoid
confusion.
Creates a skeleton KOffice
KPresenter document. Give its name a .kpr
extension.
Creates a skeleton KOffice KWord
document using the standard KWord style template. Give its name a .kwd
extension.
Use this to create a new KOffice
KSpread spreadsheet file, and name it with a .ksp
extension.
Creates a new KOffice Kontour
document. Name it with the extension .kil
.
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