System Settings changes in Edgy? sigh! [was kmenuedit missing]

Joe(theWordy)Philbrook jtwdyp at ttlc.net
Mon Dec 18 20:54:00 UTC 2006


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It would appear that on Nov 27, Juan Carlos Torres did say:

> A lot of changes were made to System Settings in Edgy,
> most of which were to avoid duplication.

Sounds like a good idea. But this can make things hard for those who only
vaguely remember how to find their way to a rarely used function by
looking for something that sounds like it, in the place that has now
been determined to be a duplication...

> Editing the K Menu is more properly done by right-clicking
> on the K Menu icon and selecting the Menu Editor.

Oh no... The reason I chose KDE over gnome is that I absolutely can't
abide having to remember where and how to click with that annoying
rodent like pointing device... The keyboard is/was/"will always be" my
preferred command input device. 

<rant>
With KDE I can usually use Alt+F1 and then use the cursor keys to
navigate the menu. Especially important to me when I don't happen to
remember the actual command name of the application to feed to the Alt+F2
run prompt.

Please tell me that Kubuntu isn't going to become so mouse focused that
I'll no longer feel comfortable with it... ( I started with breezy, then
used "apt-get dist-upgrade" to get dapper. But if right clicking on
things is now considered a more proper way to do things than using the
keyboard to get there, I'm suddenly not so sure I'm going to like making
the switch to edgy and/or beyond... sigh!)
</rant>

> (The manual way is to press Alt+F2 and type in "kmenuedit").

This is good. Actually it's my favorite method when I know the command
name.  But how does one get a list of unfamiliar command names
(preferably with function descriptions) of programs traditionally started
from the kmenu? Especially those that have been removed in favor of mouse
based initialization??? 

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