so I can press the meta key and the application launch app pops up, and start I typing “goog” and up comes the app I want, “google earth”, and I can launch it.
so it’s not in any of the little sub menus, perhaps I deleted it by mistake,
so I’d like to add it to a custom menu I created, called “maps”.
so I open menu editor and I have no idea what to do now.
I don’t know where the app is installed.
I know there is a .desktop file somewhere and I thought I’d be able to choose from a list of all the .desktop files on the system but I can’t see how to do that.
Can I just drag and drop the .desktop into a folder somewhere?
what exactly is it that “menu editor” is editing? some XML somewhere?
cheers
These desktop files are stored in /usr/share/applications and ~/.local/share/applications. Either drag and drop it or run the desktop-file-install $path_to_desktop_file command. There’s probably a graphical way too but this should also do the trick.
thanks very much.
dragging and dropping from /usr/local/share/applications worked fine for adding the entry to the “menu editor”
seems I’ve discovered a bug, switching /usr/share/applications to thumbnails view crashes dolphin.
I selected “Use a common display stye” as a workaround.
cheers!
trying to duplicate this but can’t
from a right click and choosing New Item from the context menu in the KDE Menu Editor i get a General tab with fields as shown
but when i try to drag a .desktop file from /usr/share/applications/ to the program field it won’t let me… it’s blocked with a “wrong way” icon.
i have to use the browse button and navigate to the file.
but even then, after i Save and then try to use the new application menu entry i get an error notification
the program '/usr/share/applications/galculator.desktop' is missing executable permissions.
what am i doing wrong/different?
I just opened the “menu editor” program and dropped the .desktop file into the pane on the left.
like this
https://imgur.com/a/JNs6GaB
then pressed “save”.
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oh, got it… that’s way easier than what i was trying to do.
and it will automagically name it thing-2 if you already have thing in your menu