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Re: [LUG] KDE4 panel shortcut?

 

Jonathan Roberts wrote:
> 2008/11/24 Simon Williams <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Hello everyone.
>> I finally got round to updating Arch. So now I have KDE4, which looks
>> very flash, but in some ways I was happier with KDE3. It was just more
>> intuitive.
>> Anyways, I can't find out how to add application shortcuts (not
>> widgets), like a link to firefox, to the panel. Anyone know how to do this?
> 
> Presuming it's the same on all KDE 4 versions, you just find the
> application in the K menu, right click and choose "Add to panel"

Right clicking runs the application for me. Though maybe that's because 
I'm using the old menu system.
I've downloaded a quick launch applet which is doing the job for now. 
Apparently they are adding it to KDE 4.2.

> I'm just learning myself and looking at maybe switching from Gnome...
> something that I've found is nice is gtk-qt-engine, at least it makes
> Firefox look like a KDE 4 app :)

I tried that, but it causes issues too easily.


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