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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Classic Menu in kde43 looks good, but still can't add folder from
From:       "A.J. Venter" <aj () outkastsolutions ! co ! za>
Date:       2009-06-13 9:23:46
Message-ID: 868cfe70906130223j2bf9c78dye7a471409ae18135 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 1:51 AM, Aaron J. Seigo<aseigo@kde.org> wrote:
> On Friday 12 June 2009, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
>> On Friday 12 June 2009, David C. Rankin wrote:
>> >     However, you still can't add a menu 'folder' to the panel like you could
>> > simply do in kde3.
>>
>> add a folder view to your panel?
>
This is a nice way to create additional custom menu's but folderview
has one annoying thing (the same is in Dolphin actually) - I don't
know if it's a bug or if it was done on purpose (which is why I'm
mailing before posting something) - but it doesn't handle .desktop
files nicely - it shows the filename rather than the description.
The old KDE3 quickbrowser applet handled this really nicely - but
since folderview does everything else it does already, it seems
superfluous to have to install another plasmoid just for that (e.g.
I'm aware that a KDE4 clone exists) - especially since the
quickbrowser applet actually does too much for this and folderview is
in every other aspect better.

Even on the desktop I think showing the description/Name entry from
the .desktop file rather than the filename makes sense. After all if
you have a folderview of your Desktop folder, it is likely full of
shortcuts from various apps - and the filename isn't the part you are
actually interested in - it's the program name you want to see.

Ciao
A.J.
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