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Re: A wish for the search function of the KDE menu.



On Monday, January 27, 2025 11:56:20 AM MST Eike Lantzsch ZP5CGE / KY4PZ wrote:

> Hi all,

> I don't know exactly where to ask this:

>

> When searching for an application by means of the KDE menu (or is it the

> Plasma menu?) the application can be found alright but, and this is a

> huge 'But', I would very much like ta also receive the information in

> which menu entry or in which submenu this application resides. That

> would help me 'going to the right places in the first place' the next

> time instead of searching again and again and also would tremendously

> help to put the most used applications into the favourites. The search

> function does what it says but there is no option to put the found

> application among the favourites that I know of. To do this one has to

> intuitively find the menu entry or crawl through all menu entries until

> one finds what one was trying to put into favourites.


On my system I can search, right-click on any entry, and select “Add to Favorites” at the bottom of the menu.


This, however, does not address your first point.


> Apart from this I mainly use KRunner to start applications. I'm happy

> that this alternative exists but that way one cannot put the application

> into the favourites.

>

> I don't know if I expressed myself clearly enough nor if my wish might

> be considered to be viable?

>

> All the best

> --

> Eike Lantzsch KY4PZ / ZP5CGE



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Soren Stoutner

soren@debian.org

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