SOLVED applet system menu

[computador]

Is it possible to personalize system menu applet ?
The applet that have documents , home, user's folder ..
I'd like to add some personal folder.

[Fredh]

Re: applet system menu

Are you in kde3.5.9 or kde4?

What do yo mean by:
system menu applet?

[computador]

Re: applet system menu

Are you in kde3.5.9 or kde4?

What do yo mean by:
system menu applet?

I run kde3 . Sorry I translate system menu applet from Italian . I think that its installed by default, it is in kicker, When you click on it you can go to documents , home, user's folder, storage media ...

[Fredh]

Re: applet system menu

Okay, i am not sure if this is what you want but: right click on the kicker->add mini applet-> choose the icon with a folder and a lightning symbol. add it to your kicker and you can choose the folder/partition/drive you want to have quick access to.

Sorry, mine is in german and my italien is bad

I hope this helps

[Rog131]

Re: applet system menu

At the start KDE is looking in to the /usr/share/apps/systemview/ folder. system menu applet (and Dolphin Bookmark - System) will show the content.

Example. If you make text file (something.desktop) that have something like:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Icon=/media/sdb3/Icons/myicon.png
Name=My System Menu
Name[en_GB]=My System Menu
Type=Link
URL=/media/sda6

and drop it to the /usr/share/apps/systemview/. It will be shown in the system menu. Example picture added below.

Markings:
Icon=path to the icon, when you use default icons you don't need path. Default KDE icons are in the /usr/share/icons/...
Name=This text will been shown (Remote Places, Home Folder...)
URL=where do you want to move when you click.

[computador]

Re: applet system menu

At the start KDE is looking in to the /usr/share/apps/systemview/ folder. system menu applet (and Dolphin Bookmark - System) will show the content.
.................................

Thanks I solved it

[computador]

Re: SOLVED applet system menu


If I want to run a command line instead of open a folder I think that I can change
Type=Link to type= ?
Do you know if it is possible ?

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Icon=/media/sdb3/Icons/myicon.png
Name=My System Menu
Name[en_GB]=My System Menu
Type=?
URL=/media/sda6

[Rog131]

Re: SOLVED applet system menu

How this should work

Example with the konqueror

This .desktop file (konqueror.desktop):

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Exec=konqueror
Icon=konqueror
Name=Konqueror

should add konqueror in the applet menu. BUT here with the Kubuntu (7.10) KDE 3.5.8 it doesn't work (?). It works if i go to the /usr/share/apps/systemview/ folder and click konqueror.desktop there.

Workaround. With the wrong syntax /1/

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Link
Path=/usr/bin/konqueror
Icon=konqueror
Name=Konqueror

This is working with the applet menu.

If I want to run a command line instead of open a folder I think that I can change
Type=Link to type= ?
Do you know if it is possible ?

? Do you want the Run Command window (Alt+F2) ? Or something else ?


Run Command window with the system menu applet

Making runcommand.desktop (/usr/share/apps/systemview/)

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Link
Path=/usr/bin/runcommand
Icon=apport
Name=Run Command (Alt+F2)

and runcommand script

#!/bin/sh

dcop kdesktop KDesktopIface popupExecuteCommand

Right clicking runcommand script > Properties > Permissions > is executable !

Dropping runcommand script to the /usr/bin.

Log out - restart X - Log in: And (picture below)..


Note
You could try with the:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Exec=dcop kdesktop KDesktopIface popupExecuteCommand
Icon=apport
Name=Run Command (Alt+F2)

maybe it is working with your Kubuntu.


/1/ If i go to the /usr/share/apps/systemview/ and click the konqueror.desktop:

The desktop entry file
file:///usr/share/apps/systemview/konqueror.desktop
is of type Link but has no URL=...entry

But it is working thru the applet. More of .desktop syntax: GtoK: .desktop files