[kde-doc-english] KDE Menu Editor Handbook -- KDE application launcher

[Burkhard Lück]

Hi Jerry,

Am Montag, 2. September 2013, 17:57:14 schrieb Jerry Nelson:
> re: The KDE Menu Editor Handbook
> Milos Prudek <milos.prudek at worldonline.cz>
> Anne-Marie Mahfouf <annma at kde.org>
> 
> Dear overworked volunteers,
> 
> How to add a program to launch?
> This documentation uses as an example INTERNET / New Item / Firefox.
> 
> DISCOVERY
> 
> How do you know to type in the letters F-i-r-e-f-o-x ?
> How can I find out what programs not in the launcher are launchable, and
> what names must be used to launch them?  How does discovery proceed?  You
> do not need to write the definitive and complete answer, you just have to
> let me discover in this documentation a new tool or two that gives me a
> little more power to discover and explore my system as I craft my App
> Launcher menu.
> 
> This is the core of mastering what is on my installation and learning to use
> my system.  But the core issue is ignored.
> 
> HIERARCHICAL ORGANIZATION & HIDING
> 
> What tools are available for organizing my overview of apps?   If the App
> Launcher Menu is the chief (only?) tool for organizing an overview of every
> user app I want to run on the system, then an examples of creating a
> HIERARCHICAL MENU SYSTEM should be shown -- not just adding a single item to
> the flat folder tree here.
> 
> Show me how to create a TOP LEVEL item called  OTHERSTUFF so that I can hide
> (drag-and-drop) less-wanted menu items into it and hide them.  I only see
> SUBMENU creation, not SAMELEVEL (top level) item creation.
> 
Seems there is room for improvements for the kmenuedit handbook, thanks for 
your suggestions.

I'll add them updating the docbook soon.

Thanks.

-- 
Burkhard Lück