krunner question

[Matthew Woehlke]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> If I type 'kons' into krunner I get two entries
> 
> Default: Konsole (Application)
> Konsole (Application)
> 
> They have different icons.
> 
> Is there a difference, or is this a 4.0 oddity?

Yes... well, sort-of, probably.

Typically when I go to start something from krunner (I'll use konsole as 
the example), what happens is it finds two things: konsole.desktop in 
your XDG dirs (i.e. a menu item named "Konsole"), and an executable 
program in $PATH named "konsole". The former should have a "correct" 
icon while the latter will be a gear (the generic 'executable' icon). 
Most likely Konsole.desktop will invoke the same 'konsole' that is in 
$PATH, so it shouldn't matter which you pick. However, the second one in 
that case is "run konsole", and the first (for me, anyway) is "Konsole: 
terminal".

It sounds like you may be running into something else that happens to me 
on occasion, namely, two .desktop entries. In that case they are 
probably different (I'd even say there's a decent chance one is broken, 
or perhaps if you have KDE3 installed also, one might be the KDE3 
Konsole), but without at least seeing a screenshot it's hard to guess 
what's going on.

At any rate, there is probably a reason, and hopefully I have explained 
enough for you to have a decent guess at why you have more than one 'hit'.

-- 
Matthew
"Adriaan has bin AWOL"
"s/bin/been/g... I spend way too much time with computers."
   -- Stefan Teleman (on IRC)

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