[kubuntu-users] katapult doesn't find half of my apps

[Jonathan Riddell]

On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 01:17:23AM +0200, Sebastian K??gler wrote:
> katapult looks pretty slick, but it doesn't recognize a lot of my apps, let 
> alone aliases for apps. 
> It seems that if there's not .desktop file for an application, it won't 
> recognize it, and I can't even start it if I type the whole command and press 
> enter. (Try simply "xterm" for example.)

> If it can't find something, couldn't it just dump the command into a shell and 
> try?

Yes, it uses the XDG menu for find applications.  That makes it much
more user friendly in my opinion.  Dropping back to command line would
be one possibility but if its a command line problem you may as well
just run it from a command line, GUI programs should have XDG menu
entries I'd say.


> Furthermore, it can't deal with konqueror's shortcuts, e.g. accessing Qt's API 
> docs via "qt widget" doesn't work.

Yeah, that would be good.

> Can this be fixed easily? I can't seem to find any configuration for katapult, 
> and on kde-apps.org, it says it's basically abandonware. Does it have a new 
> maintainer maybe?

Kubuntu is the new maintainer, all help welcome :)

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Katapult

Jonathan