[kde-linux] How do I add my own item to the main launcher menu?

[David J Iannucci]

> > Running 4.4.5, and want to add my own item, a shell script, to the
> > main launcher menu. Am somewhat dumbfounded that it's either
> > impossible or at least very hard to figure out how to do this.  With
> > all the attention paid to customizability...?
>
> This could be one of those "obvious in hindsight" things you wonder
> how you ever missed, but sometimes, you just have to ask, as it can be
> obvious to everyone else, and to you in hindsight, but /only/ in
> hindsight.  I'm sure we've all been there.

Duncan,

Thanks for being patronizing in the *nicest* possible way :-)

> Simply context/right-click on the menu icon , and choose menu editor.
> There you go.  Edit, add, delete, move around, to your heart's
> content!

Tried that :-)  For me, there *was* no menu editor in the context menu.

> Alternatively (and less I-should-have-figured-that-out!), the app name
> is kmenuedit. 

This was the critical clue for me.  So here's the explanation: I'm using
Gentoo, and my system is sorta halfway between KDE4.4.4 and kde-sunset
(3.5.10).  It turns out that kmenuedit was installed in the KDE3 slot,
but not for KDE4.  All I had to do was install (merge) the 4.4.4 version
of this app, (and logout and back in) and it works as expected.

I guess... I wouldn't have imagined that this functionality was entirely
encompassed in a special app that could be accidentally omitted.

Dave