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Sunday, March 22, 2009

We Won't Leave You Behind...

Although the future belongs to newer application launchers like Kickoff, Lancelot or Raptor, some users prefer the old K Menu style. Nothing wrong with that. That's the reason why the plasma team made it really easy to switch the menu to a more KDE 3 like style. Unfortunately this "classic menu style" was quickly made and it missed a few features.

To improve the situation, I tackled the wishes #158302 and #187014.

#158302

The classic menu style now supports separators in the menu...



#187014

... and it also offers the same context menu as the Kickoff style.



Both features will be available with KDE 4.3. Have fun!

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6 Comments:

  • Thanks for the two patches! I really like the context menu! I still prefer the old menu over kickoff. Its far easier and faster to use! Hopefully they never stop distributing it!

    By OpenID buggernotme, at 5:32 PM  

  • Not sure if this is kmenu or plasma:
    In kde3 I used to be able to drag the icon for a submenu to the kicker panel. In kde4 I can only drag application icons.

    By Blogger Zot, at 5:34 PM  

  • Does the favorites list also have the "Sort Alphabetically" entries in the context menu?

    Xtreme Kommander

    By Blogger Jesse, at 12:14 PM  

  • thanks for this!
    is it also possible to add some find functionality (like in 3.5.9+ on suse)? i.e. press '/' and type something to gray everything out except the matching entries (krit for Krita, etc.)

    By Blogger vespas, at 4:51 PM  

  • @Jesse: The favorites list doesn't have any context menu at the moment. I will take a look at that if I find time again.

    By Blogger cloose, at 7:10 PM  

  • Please implement another options.

    1 - Icons more large, look is more good.

    2 - Left image similar with kde 3.5

    By Blogger O tudo e o nada..., at 2:45 AM  

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