Okay, so now dig me. :-]
I played round with ksystraycmd. It shows how long it's been since I thought
about this thing, because after mulling it over a bit, I figured out how to
make my own trick.
alt-F2
smplayer %f | --pkill ksystraycmd
Whatever applies to smplayer here, ought to work with other programs, too.
That kills the ghost icon from the start, if I open it from alt-F2, but now I
get a plain white vanilla gui interface. I believe I can figure out how to
force my own background, and probably how to get all this stuff into
the "open with" menu. There's probably an easier way, but at least I can get
this to work for me.
So I think I'm halfway there. Now for the messier problem: I have all these
leftover shortcuts in my "open with" menus. It worst in my oldest folders, of
course.
Now I'm wondering, Is there's an easy way of getting rid of those unused
shortcuts?
Bill