Rename Web Search Keywords

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How do I rename Web Search Keywords?

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The keywords used to invoke the search?
Double click or the “Edit” button on the right side of the list.

The acutal name of the existing ones you can’t change it seems, all you can do via the UI is add a new one, which will end up in ~/.local/share/kf6/searchproviders/.

The default keywords are in /usr/share/kf6/searchproviders/ owned by root, you could modify them, but I wouldn’t.
All the changes you perform via the UI will create a copy in your home folder with the changes, “deleting” them in the settings just creates a .desktop file that hides them:

[Desktop Entry]
Hidden=true
Type=Service
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If I click on edit I can change everything except the name. That was my point. Is this a bug?

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No, but definitely a feature request since the name is apparently actually changeable (just not in the UI).

The only time you can choose the name is when you create a new shortcut. You can’t change the name via the UI afterwards, even for the ones you created yourself.

You can however change the name in the .desktop file, and that also works for the default shortcuts.

  1. Double click the shortcut you want to change (I’m going with 7Digital), add a random character to the keywords and hit apply (this way you don’t have to guess the name of the .desktop file)
  2. You now have a ~/.local/share/kf6/searchproviders/7digital.desktop file which you can edit with a text editor
  3. Change Name= to whatever you want, don’t forget to remove the random character you added from Keys=
  4. The keyword now has the new name in the settings

No idea if this starts breaking at some point :thinking:
I’ve honestly given up on messing with the default shortcuts and only add my own, lost my modifications a few times in the past…