KDE 4 Sevicemenus

[Jonas Norlander]

2009/11/30 Jerry Lapham <rjlapham at gmail.com>:
> On Sunday 29 November 2009 4:32:37 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
>> --
>> =============================================
>> Jerry Lapham
>> Monroe, OH  45050
>> rjlapham at gmail.com
>> =============================================
>> If you shop anywhere but Wal-Mart, you are just showing off!
>
>
>
>> 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
>
> Copying the two RootActions there put them on the Dolphin right-click menu,
> but when I tried to use them I got an error that it could not
> find 'rootactions-servicemenus.pl'.
>
> Copying the Kim ones there didn't do anything.
>

rootactions-servicemenus.pl is a executable and should probably be in your path.

/ Jonas