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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