'Arrange items on desktop in Search and Launch Activity'

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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Arrange items on desktop in Search and Launch Activity
From:       Franklin Weng <franklin () goodhorse ! idv ! tw>
Date:       2012-09-19 3:32:29
Message-ID: CADtxYXZHzkXmor7Mu0Y21__5Ti5q_OPedsWnhyfPUDW7Q8Cu+g () mail ! gmail ! com
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Hi list,

I once posted two questions about SaL activity on kde-user list about two
weeks ago.  Here I'll ask again and hope to get KDE developer's points of
view.

1. In the SaL activity we can choose which categories will show on the
desktop.  But it seems that we don't have any way to change the order on
the desktop.

For example, I'd like to make the first category, in the upper-left corner,
be Office instead of Internet.  Currently I've searched on google and KDE
user or techbase wiki but can't find a way to change the order,

To find out the solution, I tried to edit the plasma init scripts
 (/usr/share/kde4/apps/plasma-desktop/init/00-defaultLayout.js)  to create
an SaL activity and assigned the categories I wanted to show
in EnabledEntries options, with the order I want.  However, when creating a
user and a whole new kde plasma-desktop-appletsrc file, the EnabledEntries
was written into it but the categories shown in the desktop were still the
very default ones - bookmarks, contacts, and some other categories.

2. In the EnabledEntries option, some categories used desktop file like
plasma-sal-office.desktop and some used a name I assigned in my XDG menus
file like SoundVideo/ .  Why didn't it just honor the categories defined in
the applications menu file like kde4-applications.menu in /etc/xdg/menus
and the customized menu files in the home directory, but used another
desktop instead?

I can't find any document describing the behavior here...

I'm using KDE 4.9.0 (on kubuntu 12.04 but I believe that Linux distros do
not affect this behavior).

Thanks,
Franklin

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<div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Hi \
list,</span></div><div><span \
style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br>

</span></div><div><span \
style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div><span \
style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">I \
once posted two questions about SaL activity on kde-user list about two weeks ago.  \
Here I&#39;ll ask again and hope to get KDE developer&#39;s points of \
view.</span></div>

<div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span \
style="font-size:14px"><br></span></font></div><span \
style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><div>

1. In the SaL activity we can choose which categories will show on the desktop.  But \
it seems that we don&#39;t have any way to change the order on the \
desktop.</div><div><br></div><div>For example, I&#39;d like to make the first \
category, in the upper-left corner, be Office instead of Internet.  Currently \
I&#39;ve searched on google and KDE user or techbase wiki but can&#39;t find a way to \
change the order, </div>

<div><br></div><div>To find out the solution, I tried to edit the plasma init scripts \
(/usr/share/kde4/apps/plasma-desktop/init/00-defaultLayout.js)  to create an SaL \
activity and assigned the categories I wanted to show in EnabledEntries options, with \
the order I want.  However, when creating a user and a whole new kde \
plasma-desktop-appletsrc file, the EnabledEntries was written into it but the \
categories shown in the desktop were still the very default ones - bookmarks, \
contacts, and some other categories.</div>

<div><br></div><div>2. In the EnabledEntries option, some categories used desktop \
file like plasma-sal-office.desktop and some used a name I assigned in my XDG menus \
file like SoundVideo/ .  Why didn&#39;t it just honor the categories defined in the \
applications menu file like kde4-applications.menu in /etc/xdg/menus and the \
customized menu files in the home directory, but used another desktop instead?</div>

<div><br></div><div>I can&#39;t find any document describing the behavior \
here...</div><div><br></div><div>I&#39;m using KDE 4.9.0 (on kubuntu 12.04 but I \
believe that Linux distros do not affect this behavior).</div><div>

<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Franklin</div></span>

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