[kde-linux] Custom launcher on KDE4 toolbar?

James Kerr jim at jkerr82508.free-online.co.uk
Thu Oct 1 13:41:29 UTC 2009


On Thursday 01 October 2009 Anne Wilson wrote:

> On Thursday 01 October 2009 13:05:18 David Jarvie wrote:
> > On Thu, October 1, 2009 7:56 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > If you launch krunner (Alt-F2) and type 'menu' you should be
> > > offered the menu
> > > updating tool.  That should scan your system and put extra
> > > applications onto the launcher menu.
> >
> > Is there a list anywhere of the keywords which krunner will
> > recognise? From time to time (such as in your email) I see
> > mention of another krunner function, but I don't know how to find
> > out about them.
>
> AIUI, there is a dynamic element, where it adds things that it
> knows about. In may case I sometimes see suggestions pop up that
> are from my browser bookmarks.
>
> > There seems to be quite a bit of useful functionality in KDE 4
> > which is hidden from users.
>
> Userbase is where we try to document things, though new features
> are added so often that it's quite hard to keep up.  Try
> http://userbase.kde.org/Tutorials/Krunner
>

Clicking on the spanner in krunner's Ui will display a list of the 
runners that are installed, along with a brief description of what 
each of them enables krunner to do.

Jim



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