Kmenu Options

[tlmiller]

Is there any way to prevent Mageia from creating shortcuts in a "more" folder? If I manually remove things from this folder, it breaks KDE's putting things in alphabetical order. But it's irritating to have to click on more on every single thing since I use a lot of other applications, even though there's only 3 or 4 things already in the menu. Thanks!

[isadora]

For me quite quizzing, what you ask.
What exactly is described by a "more"-folder? Where do you see that appear for example, in the menu of which application?

[isadora]

As where it concerns your Application Launcher, you could try adding "Recently Used Applications" to the menu.
Right-click the launcher-button, and choose for "Application Launcher Menu Settings", go to "View" and add to your likes.

[doktor5000]

@isadora: When you install software that is not "native" to KDE (defined by the categories in the .desktop files that create the menu entries) those will be put into "More" submenus, in each menu. You can see the underlying menu structure including the "more" submenus in /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu

In the past there have been discussions to improve this, but there were usually reasons against removing the "more" submenus - mainly as it would add clutter if you only have one level of submenus and all applications crammed into there - that would hurt quite badly on clarity.

See http://artipc10.vub.ac.be/wordpress/200 ... structure/

edit doktor5000:
@tlmiller: There's not much you can do, except for creating your own menu hierarchy. See the above comments and /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu
For the specification, take a look at http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/

You could try to replace /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu by one of the alternative menu structures. The following are available:

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┌─[doktor5000@Mageia4]─[11:20:38]─[~]
└──╼ urpmf /etc/xdg/menus/*applications.menu
desktop-common-data:/etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu
desktop-common-data:/etc/xdg/menus/kde-applications.menu
mageia-xfce-config:/etc/xdg/menus/xfce-applications.menu
razorqt-data:/etc/xdg/menus/razor-applications.menu
mate-menus:/etc/xdg/menus/mate-applications.menu
desktop-common-data:/etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu
desktop-common-data:/etc/xdg/menus/kde-applications.menu
desktop-common-data:/etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu
desktop-common-data:/etc/xdg/menus/kde-applications.menu
mageia-xfce-config:/etc/xdg/menus/xfce-applications.menu
razorqt-data:/etc/xdg/menus/razor-applications.menu
mate-menus:/etc/xdg/menus/mate-applications.menu
desktop-common-data:/etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu
desktop-common-data:/etc/xdg/menus/kde-applications.menu

[isadora]

@isadora: When you install software that is not "native" to KDE (defined by the categories in the .desktop files that create the menu entries) those will be put into "More" submenus, in each menu. You can see the underlying menu structure including the "more" submenus in /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu
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Thanks doktor5000 for your explanation, will take a further look on it.

[tlmiller]

Great explanation. Thanks much, I'll take a look at some of the alternative menus!!