KDE 4 Sevicemenus

[Clay Weber]

On Friday 27 November 2009 08:55:53 pm Jerry Lapham wrote:
> I've been running Kubuntu 9.10 on my laptop since it first came out and I
>  must say KDE 4.3 is a big improvement over even 4.2.2 in Kubuntu 9.04. 
>  But I'm still not ready to go to it on my "production" desktop system.
> 
> One of the things that keeps me running Kubuntu 8.04 and KDE 3.5.10 is the
> stuff on the right-click menus in Dolphin:
> 
>  --When I right-click on a Folder and select Actions I have an option to
>  Open as Root.
> 
>  --When I right-click on a text file and select Actions I have an option to
> Edit as Root.
> 
>  --When I right-click on a jpeg file and select Actions I have a hierarchy
>  of options using Kim to manipulate the images.  It took a little doing to
>  get this capability in Dolphin -- I had to copy three kim-  desktop files
>  from konqueror to d3lphin.
> 
> I did find and install the konq-kim package for KDE4.  It put five kim
>  desktop files in /usr/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus.  (I also copied
>  them to /usr/share/apps/dolphin/servicemenus.)  They still don't show up
>  under Actions in either Konqueror or Dolphin.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> 	-Jerry
> 

check out SamRog's PPA for service menus, among many other extras:
https://edge.launchpad.net/~samrog131/+archive/ppa
He also has some info and how-to's here:
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=3088743.0

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