Hello:
I've been using openSUSE with KDE3 for several years. Recently I installed trinity (last stable) on openSUSE 13.1. I am very satisfied with it so far. The only thing I miss know is how start menu items are organized. In openSUSE they are organized into submenus in 2 or 3 levels (eg System/Archiving/*, System/Desktop/* etc). Unfortunately trinity doesn't have this leveling, most programs are put under one main menu item. Eg the program lists in System menu almost fills my whole screen. Which files do I have to modify to have openSUSE type menu categories? Is it enough to adjust a file in /etc/xdg/menus or do I have to modify every single .desktop files belonging to the given applications, or something else?
Thanks,
Istvan
On Saturday 25 June 2016 14.21:50 Istvan Gabor wrote:
Hello:
I've been using openSUSE with KDE3 for several years. Recently I installed trinity (last stable) on openSUSE 13.1. I am very satisfied with it so far. The only thing I miss know is how start menu items are organized. In openSUSE they are organized into submenus in 2 or 3 levels (eg System/Archiving/*, System/Desktop/* etc). Unfortunately trinity doesn't have this leveling, most programs are put under one main menu item. Eg the program lists in System menu almost fills my whole screen. Which files do I have to modify to have openSUSE type menu categories? Is it enough to adjust a file in /etc/xdg/menus or do I have to modify every single .desktop files belonging to the given applications, or something else?
Thanks,
Istvan
Hello Istvan,
You can do it yourself: right click on TDE menu icon -> Configure Panel -> select "Menus" on the left, and click "Edit_TDE Menu"
Create the submenus you want, drag and drop the items you want in it.
Everyone has his own idea how the start menu should be organised - I don't so much care myself as I seldom use it - what I always need is in the Panel.
Regards,
Thierry
Thierry de Coulon composed on 2016-06-25 15:23 (UTC+0200):
Istvan Gabor wrote:
I've been using openSUSE with KDE3 for several years. Recently I installed trinity (last stable) on openSUSE 13.1. I am very satisfied with it so far. The only thing I miss know is how start menu items are organized. In openSUSE they are organized into submenus in 2 or 3 levels (eg System/Archiving/*, System/Desktop/* etc). Unfortunately trinity doesn't have this leveling, most programs are put under one main menu item. Eg the program lists in System menu almost fills my whole screen. Which files do I have to modify to have openSUSE type menu categories? Is it enough to adjust a file in /etc/xdg/menus or do I have to modify every single .desktop files belonging to the given applications, or something else?
You can do it yourself: right click on TDE menu icon -> Configure Panel -> select "Menus" on the left, and click "Edit_TDE Menu"
Create the submenus you want, drag and drop the items you want in it.
Everyone has his own idea how the start menu should be organised - I don't so much care myself as I seldom use it - what I always need is in the Panel.
There are far too many things I use to fit in a panel.
Maybe he wants to do what I tried 2-3 weeks ago and couldn't figure out - how to do it with a text editor, so that the menus come up nested for all users, not mousing for only a single user. e.g., openSUSE KDE3 has a main menu item "Internet", with a submenu item "Web Browsers", in which I expect to find every web browser installed by YaST or Zypper.
Felix Miata wrote:
Thierry de Coulon composed on 2016-06-25 15:23 (UTC+0200):
Istvan Gabor wrote:
openSUSE they are organized into submenus in 2 or 3 levels (eg System/Archiving/*, System/Desktop/* etc). Unfortunately trinity doesn't have this leveling, most programs are put under one main menu item.
Default trinity menus are categorized/subcategorized 1 > 3 levels deep and no menu has more than 10 items.
You can do it yourself: right click on TDE menu icon -> Configure Panel ->
What TDE version? In 14.? I have a direct link to the Menu Editor when I right click the menu icon.
Create the submenus you want, drag and drop the items you want in it.
Yes, it's very easy to do whatever you want to the menu.
There are far too many things I use to fit in a panel.
So create subcategories/menus... Are you using classic or kickoff style?
menu item "Internet", with a submenu item "Web Browsers", in which I expect to find every web browser installed by YaST or Zypper.
I don't know about kickoff style, but that is how the classic menu style looks and works in TDE, though all browsers are under Internet by default. As above, it's easy to create and populate a browsers subcategory/menu.
Thierry, Felix, Dave, Thank you.
Dave Lers lists@dalrun.com írta:
Felix Miata wrote:
Thierry de Coulon composed on 2016-06-25 15:23 (UTC+0200):
Istvan Gabor wrote:
openSUSE they are organized into submenus in 2 or 3 levels (eg System/Archiving/*, System/Desktop/* etc). Unfortunately trinity doesn't have this leveling, most programs are put under one main menu item.
Default trinity menus are categorized/subcategorized 1 > 3 levels deep and no menu has more than 10 items.
Not in my system which is a new TDE installation. I've made comparison slide with openSUSE and TDE kicker menus, you can look at it at:
http://i65.tinypic.com/2rwp5di.jpg
You can see that the list of applications fills the whole screen in settings and system menu. Other menus don't have submenus as in openSUSE menu structure.
You can do it yourself: right click on TDE menu icon -> Configure
Thanks, I know how to edit menus but I want a default menu structure for every user set up. Then they can adjust according to their liking.
What TDE version? In 14.? I have a direct link to the Menu Editor when
The newest one, R14.0.3.
So create subcategories/menus... Are you using classic or kickoff style?
I use classic style.
Thanks,
Istvan
Istvan Gabor wrote:
Thierry, Felix, Dave, Thank you.
Dave Lers lists@dalrun.com Ãrta:
Felix Miata wrote:
Thierry de Coulon composed on 2016-06-25 15:23 (UTC+0200):
Istvan Gabor wrote:
openSUSE they are organized into submenus in 2 or 3 levels (eg System/Archiving/*, System/Desktop/* etc). Unfortunately trinity doesn't have this leveling, most programs are put under one main menu item.
Default trinity menus are categorized/subcategorized 1 > 3 levels deep and no menu has more than 10 items.
Not in my system which is a new TDE installation. I've made comparison slide with openSUSE and TDE kicker menus, you can look at it at:
I'll rephrase, a TDE only x-windows system will have tiered menus with no more than 10 items each... I don't know if that is always the case, but adding TDE to a preexisting x-windows system can get messy. There was another discussion earlier this month on this and I suggested installing TDE on the text only version of a distro to get a clean TDE only menu. If having all those programs/menu items is important, I see the problem and have no answers.
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