Kickoff is great though often I want to go to and edit/view the program code for a Favourites item.
Specifically, I have an entry in kickoff favourites that leads to a .sh script, but it isn’t working, so I want to open the location of the script in Dolphin, so I can then open the .sh in a terminal to see what the problem is
Would also be useful for .desktop files and such, every now and then I want to configure the Icon=… etc, and needing to go to edit application > copy program path > paste in dolphin is a bit slow
Not sure if this is the right place for this or if the terminology is correct
sounds like what you want is a service menu that gives you the option to open a file in a text editor when you right click on a .desktop icon in your task manager.
these service menus will work on applications in the taskbar, but you need to write it into the application .desktop file rather than create a stand alone service menu.
since you already have .desktop file for your shell script, you simply need to add some Actions to it that call up the script in an editor.
feel free to pose your .desktop file here using the code formatting so it’s easy to read, like this
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
MimeType=application/x-zerosize;
Name=he
NoDisplay=false
Terminal=true
TerminalOptions=--noclose
Exec=/home/goo/bin/he
Actions=opened
[Desktop Action opened]
Exec=kate /home/goo/bin/he
Name=Edit in Kate
this entry in the task manger will now open the script he in kate for editing using the context menu i just added.
