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

Eike Lantzsch ZP5CGE / KY4PZ <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.user.kde
Organization radio amateur extra class with residence in ZP5
Message-ID <10601336.nUPlyArG6x@lxcl01>
On Tuesday, 28 January 2025 15:25:27 GMT-4 Soren Stoutner wrote:
> 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.

Yes, also here. I don't know why I missed it.
> 
> 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 as ever
and thanks
-- 
Eike Lantzsch KY4PZ / ZP5CGE
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