KDE 4 Sevicemenus

[Clay Weber]

On Sunday 29 November 2009 04:32:37 pm Jerry Lapham wrote:
> 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
> 

Service menus seem to be found here
/usr/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus
At least the RootActions one works for me in both Konq and Dolphin when put 
there. I believe you can also put them in 
/home/<USER>/.kde/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus if  you don't care if all 
user accounts have these.

The few from kde-apps.og I have tried out  so far seem to work fine in both file 
managers.
-- 
Clay Weber
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