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<title>The &kmenuedit; Handbook</title>

<authorgroup>
<author>&Milos.Prudek; &Milos.Prudek.mail;</author>

<othercredit role="reviewer">
&Lauri.Watts; &Lauri.Watts.mail;
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</othercredit>
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</authorgroup>

<copyright>
<year>2000</year>
<holder>&Milos.Prudek;</holder>
</copyright>

<legalnotice>&FDLNotice;</legalnotice>

<date>2006-11-23</date>
<releaseinfo>0.7 (&kde; 3.5.5)</releaseinfo>

<abstract><para>&kmenuedit; allows editing of the &kde; &kmenu;. 
</para></abstract>

<keywordset>
<keyword>KDE</keyword>
<keyword>KDE Menu Editor</keyword>
<keyword>kmenuedit</keyword>
<keyword>application</keyword>
<keyword>program</keyword>
<keyword>menu</keyword>
<keyword>kicker</keyword>

</keywordset>

</bookinfo>

<chapter id="introduction">
<title>Introduction</title>

<para>&kmenuedit; allows editing of &kde; &kmenu;.</para>

<para>&kmenuedit; can be started either by &RMB; clicking the
&kmenu; button on the panel and choosing
<guimenuitem>Menu Editor</guimenuitem>, or by choosing
<guimenuitem>Menu Editor</guimenuitem> from the
<guisubmenu>Settings</guisubmenu> submenu of the &kmenu;.</para>

<para>&kmenuedit; allows you to:</para>

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>View and edit the current &kmenu;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><guimenuitem>Cut</guimenuitem>, <guimenuitem>Copy</guimenuitem>
and <guimenuitem>Paste</guimenuitem> menu items</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Create and delete submenus</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

</chapter>

<chapter id="quickstart">
<chapterinfo>
<authorgroup>
<author>&Virgil.J.Nisly; &Virgil.J.Nisly.mail;</author>
</authorgroup>
</chapterinfo>
<title>A Quick Start Guide to Adding an Entry to the &kmenu;</title>

  <para>In this example, we will add &firefox; to the <guisubmenu>Internet</guisubmenu> submenu. <note><para>Most applications can be added with &kappfinder;, &firefox; can usually be added that way, but was used for lack of a better example.</para></note></para>
  <para>To start off, we need to open &kmenuedit;, so &RMB; on the &kmenu;, click <guimenuitem>Menu Editor</guimenuitem> to start &kmenuedit;. After &kmenuedit; has started, select <guisubmenu>Internet</guisubmenu> as shown in picture below. 
<screenshot>
<screeninfo>Select <guisubmenu>Internet</guisubmenu></screeninfo>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="selectinternet.png" format="PNG" />
</imageobject>
<textobject>
<phrase>Select <guisubmenu>Internet</guisubmenu></phrase>
</textobject>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot></para>
  <para>
    Once you have selected <guisubmenu>Internet</guisubmenu>, click on <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>New Item...</guimenuitem></menuchoice>, opening the <guilabel>New Item</guilabel> dialog, as shown below. Type the name of the program you want to add, in this case, type <userinput>firefox</userinput>. 
<screenshot>
<screeninfo><guilabel>New Item</guilabel> dialog</screeninfo>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="itemname.png" format="PNG" />
</imageobject>
<textobject>
<phrase>The <guilabel>New Item</guilabel> dialog.</phrase>
</textobject>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>
</para>
<para>
Press return, and you should see something like the picture below in the main window.
<screenshot>
<screeninfo>New Item</screeninfo>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="new.png" format="PNG" />
</imageobject>
<textobject>
<phrase>The new item created.</phrase>
</textobject>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot></para>
  
<para>
    Now lets fill in the <guilabel>Description:</guilabel>, in this case type <userinput>Web Browser</userinput>. <note><para>The description and name will be displayed on the &kmenu; as <quote>Web Browser (Firefox)</quote>.</para></note> We will need to fill in the executable name in the <guilabel>Command:</guilabel> field, in this instance we will type <userinput><command>firefox</command></userinput>.</para>
<note><para>Following the command, you can have several place holders which will be replaced with actual values when the program is run:
<simplelist>
<member>%f - a single file name</member>
<member>%F - a list of files; use for applications that can open several local files at once</member>
<member>%u - a single &URL;</member>
<member>%U - a list of &URL;s</member>
<member>%d - the folder of a file to open</member>
<member>%D - a list of folders</member>
<member>%i - the icon</member>
<member>%m - the mini icon</member>
<member>%c - the caption</member>
</simplelist></para>
<informalexample><para>For example: if you want to firefox to start your web browsing at www.kde.org - instead of <command>firefox</command> you would type <command>firefox %u www.kde.org</command>.</para></informalexample></note>
<para>We would like to have a more creative icon, so we will click the generic icon sitting beside <guilabel>Name:</guilabel>. It will bring the <guilabel>Select Icon</guilabel> dialog which will let us choose the new icon, as shown below.
<screenshot>
<screeninfo><guilabel>Select Icon</guilabel> dialog</screeninfo>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="selecticon.png" format="PNG" />
</imageobject>
<textobject>
<phrase>The <guilabel>Select Icon</guilabel> dialog.</phrase>
</textobject>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot></para>

  <para>We choose the firefox icon from the list, and press return. Your finished screen should probably look something like the screenshot below. 
<screenshot>
<screeninfo>Done screenshot</screeninfo>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="done.png" format="PNG" />
</imageobject>
<textobject>
<phrase>This is what the completed menu item should looks like.</phrase>
</textobject>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot></para>

<para>Click <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>Save</guimenuitem></menuchoice>, wait for the <guilabel>Updating System Configuration</guilabel> dialog to get finished, you should find &firefox; in the &kmenu; <guisubmenu>Internet</guisubmenu> submenu!</para>



</chapter>

<chapter id="using-kmenuedit">
<title>Using &kmenuedit;</title>

<para>The left application panel shows the &kmenu; structure. When
you browse items in the left panel, the right panel shows detailed
information for the highlighted menu item.</para>

<sect1 id="details-general">
<title>General program information</title>

<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Name:</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>This is the name of your program as it appears in the
&kmenu; menu. It can be different from the real executable
name. For instance the name of <command>mc</command> executable is
"<application>Midnight Commander</application>".</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Description:</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>The description will be displayed together with the name in the &kmenu;. This is
entirely optional.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Comment:</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>Describe the program in greater detail in this field. This is
entirely optional.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Command:</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>This is the name of the executable program. Make sure that you
have permission to run the program.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Enable launch feedback</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>If this box is checked, this will display feedback when an application is started
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Place in system tray</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>When checked, the application's icon will show up in the panel system tray.
You will then be able to hide or show the application by clicking on the system
tray icon. Clicking on it using the &RMB; will allow also you to undock, or quit the
application.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guiicon>Icon List</guiicon></term>
<listitem><para>Click
this icon to display a choice of icons. Choose an icon for your
program.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Work path:</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>Specify the work path of the program. This will be the current
path when the program launches. It does not need to be the same as the
executable location.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Run in terminal</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>You must check this if your program requires terminal emulator
in order to run. This mainly applies to <link
linkend="gloss-console-application">console 
applications</link>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Terminal options:</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>Put all terminal options in this field.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Run as a different user</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>If you want to run this program as a different user (not you),
check this checkbox, and provide the username in the
<guilabel>Username:</guilabel> field.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>

<para>You can assign a special keyboard shortcut to launch your program.</para>

<para>Click the <guibutton>None</guibutton> button to the right of the <guilabel>Current
shortcut key:</guilabel> checkbox.</para>

<para>A dialog box will pop up, allowing you to assign a <guilabel>Primary shortcut:</guilabel>
by pressing the key combination on your keyboard that you want to be assigned to your program.
It might be useful to assign a second
keybinding to the same item by checking the
<guilabel>Alternate shortcut:</guilabel> button, for
example, if you often switch keyboard maps, and some shortcuts are not
as convenient to type at all times.</para>

<para>Click the <guiicon>x</guiicon> to clear the shortcut, if you
made a mistake.  Check the <guilabel>Multi-key mode</guilabel> box if you
want to assign a shortcut that uses more than one key.</para>

<para>The dialog will close when you have selected a keybinding.
</para>

</sect1> 

</chapter>

<chapter id="menu-reference">
<title>Menu Reference</title>

<variablelist>
<varlistentry id="file-new-item">
<term><menuchoice> 
<shortcut><keycombo
action="simul">&Ctrl;<keycap>N</keycap></keycombo></shortcut>
<guimenu>File</guimenu> <guimenuitem>New Item...</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term> <listitem><para><action>Adds new menu
item.</action></para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry id="file-new-submenu">
<term><menuchoice>
<guimenu>File</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>New Submenu...</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para><action>Adds new submenu.</action></para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry id="file-new-separator">
<term><menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>New
Separator</guimenuitem></menuchoice></term>
<listitem>
<para><action>Adds a new separator to the menu.</action></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry id="file-save">
<term><menuchoice>
<shortcut><keycombo
action="simul">&Ctrl;<keycap>S</keycap></keycombo></shortcut>
<guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>Save</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem>
<para><action>Saves the menu</action></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry id="file-quit">
<term><menuchoice>
<shortcut>
<keycombo action="simul">&Ctrl;<keycap>Q</keycap></keycombo>
</shortcut>
<guimenu>File</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Quit</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para><action>Quits</action> &kmenuedit;.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry id="edit-cut">
<term><menuchoice>
<shortcut>
<keycombo action="simul">&Ctrl;<keycap>X</keycap></keycombo>
</shortcut>
<guimenu>
Edit</guimenu> <guimenuitem>Cut</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para><action>Cuts the current menu item to the clipboard.</action> If
you want to move menu item, you should first cut it to the clipboard, move to
the destination place using the left panel, and use the
<guimenuitem>Paste</guimenuitem> function to paste the menu item from the
clipboard.</para></listitem> 
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry id="edit-copy">
<term><menuchoice>
<shortcut>
<keycombo action="simul">&Ctrl;<keycap>C</keycap></keycombo>
</shortcut>
<guimenu>
Edit</guimenu> <guimenuitem>Copy</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para><action>Copies the current menu item to the
clipboard</action>. You can later use the <guimenuitem>Paste</guimenuitem>
function to paste the copied menu itemfrom the clipboard to its destination. You
can paste the same item many times.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry id="edit-paste">
<term><menuchoice>
<shortcut>
<keycombo action="simul">&Ctrl;<keycap>V</keycap></keycombo>
</shortcut>
<guimenu>Edit</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Paste</guimenuitem> </menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para><action>Paste menu item from the clipboard</action> to currently
selected place in the <guimenu>Main</guimenu> menu. You must first use
<guimenuitem>Cut</guimenuitem> or <guimenuitem>Copy</guimenuitem> before you can
<guimenuitem>Paste</guimenuitem>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry id="edit-delete">
<term><menuchoice>
<shortcut><keycap>Delete</keycap></shortcut>
<guimenu>Edit</guimenu> <guimenuitem>Delete</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para><action>Deletes currently selected menu
item.</action></para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry id="settings-hide-toolbar">
<term><menuchoice>
<guimenu>Settings</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Show/Hide Toolbar</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para><action>Show or hide the toolbar</action></para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry id="settings-configure-shortcuts">
<term><menuchoice>
<guimenu>Settings</guimenu><guimenuitem>Configure
Shortcuts...</guimenuitem></menuchoice></term>
<listitem>
<para><action>Customize the keyboard shortcuts</action></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry id="settings-configure-toolbars">
<term><menuchoice>
<guimenu>Settings</guimenu><guimenuitem>Configure
Toolbars...</guimenuitem></menuchoice></term>
<listitem>
<para><action>Customize the toolbar icons.</action></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

</variablelist>

&help.menu.documentation;

</chapter>

<chapter id="credits">

<title>Credits and License</title>

<para>
&kmenuedit;
</para>
<para>Program copyright &copy; 2002, &Raffaele.Sandrini;</para>

<para>Contributors:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>&Matthias.Elter; &Matthias.Elter.mail; - Original
Author</para> 
</listitem>
<listitem><para>&Matthias.Ettrich; &Matthias.Ettrich.mail;</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>&Daniel.M.Duley; &Daniel.M.Duley.mail;</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>&Preston.Brown; &Preston.Brown.mail;</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>

<para>Documentation copyright &copy; 2000 &Milos.Prudek;</para>

<para>Updated for &kde; 3.0 by &Lauri.Watts; &Lauri.Watts.mail;
2002</para>

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&underFDL;
&underGPL;

</chapter>

<glossary id="glossary">
<title>Glossary</title> 

<glossentry id="gloss-terminal-emulator">
<glossterm>Terminal emulator</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Terminal emulator is simply a windowed shell; this is known as
<quote>command line window</quote> in some other environments. If you
want to use the shell, you should know at least a few of the
system-level commands for your operating system.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>

<glossentry id="gloss-applet">
<glossterm>Applet</glossterm>
<glossdef><para>A small application that occupies very little memory
and screen space, and at the same time gives you some useful
information or provides a control shortcut. For instance the
<application>Clock</application> applet shows current time and date
(and even a month diary if you click it), and <application>System
Monitor</application> applet shows how busy your machine currently is
in real-time.</para> </glossdef> 
</glossentry>

<glossentry id="gloss-legacy-application">
<glossterm>Legacy Application</glossterm>
<glossdef>

<para>An X-window application which was not written with &kde; in
mind. Such applications run fine in &kde;. However, they are not
warned automatically when you shut down your &kde; session. You
therefore must not forget to save documents open in these applications
before you log out from &kde;. </para> <para>Additionally, many of
these applications do not support copying and pasting from
&kde; compliant applications. &Netscape; 4.x browser is a prominent
example of such application <footnote><para>Some <ulink
url="http://www.gnome.org">GNOME</ulink> applications may provide
limited interoperability with the &kde;.</para></footnote>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>

<glossentry id="gloss-console-application">
<glossterm>Console Application</glossterm>
<glossdef>

<para>Application originally written for non-graphic, text oriented
environment. Such applications run fine in &kde;. They must run within
console emulator, like &konsole;. They are not warned automatically
when you shut down your &kde; session. You therefore must not forget
to save documents open in these applications before you log out from
the &kde;.</para>

<para>Console applications support copying and pasting from
&kde;-compliant applications.Simply mark the text in the console
application with your mouse, switch to the &kde;-compliant application
and press <keycombo action="simul">&Ctrl;
<keycap>V</keycap></keycombo> to paste the text. If you want to copy
from &kde; application to a console application, first mark the text
with your mouse, press <keycombo action="simul">&Ctrl;
<keycap>C</keycap></keycombo>, switch to the console application and
press the middle button on your mouse<footnote><para>If your mouse
does not have a middle button, you must press
<mousebutton>left</mousebutton> and <mousebutton>right</mousebutton>
button at the same time. This is called <quote>middle button
emulation</quote> and it must be supported by your operating system to
work.</para></footnote>.</para>

</glossdef>
</glossentry>

</glossary>

&documentation.index; 

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