KDE 4 Sevicemenus

[Jerry Lapham]

On Friday 27 November 2009 11:07:45 pm Clay Weber wrote:

> 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

I now have the following .desktop files in the Service Menus sub-directories 
for both Dolphin and Konqueror:

	10-rootactionsfolders.desktop
	11-rootactionsfiles.desktop
	kim_compressandresize.desktop
	kim_convertandrotate.desktop
	kim_movie.desktop
	kim_publication.desktop
	kim_record.desktop

None of these has any affect on the right click menus.

BTW, Dolphin didn't have a Service Menus sub-directory until I created it.  I 
presume Konqueror didn't either until I installed the konq-kim package.  
Where did they get their right-click menu items?

	-Jerry
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