Adding to Your Personal Menu
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NOTE: You can make your Personal menu appear first when
you click on the K icon, with the default main menu appear-
ing as a submenu. To select this option, open a Panel config-
uration window by choosing Settings|Applications|Panel and
choosing the Options tab.
To add an application to your Personal menu:
1.
Open a file manager window to view your home directory.
2.
Choose View|Show Hidden Files if they are not already visible.
3.
Browse to this directory within your home directory: .kde/share/
applnk.
4.
Create a KDE Link file for the application that you want on your Per-
sonal menu (as described previously in this Chapter).
Any KDE Link files located in the applnk subdirectory are displayed in
your Personal submenu.
If you want to create submenus in your Personal menu to divide your applica-
tions into groups, create a subdirectory in the applnk directory. All subdirectories
and KDE Links in those directories are arranged alphabetically by KDE as the
menus are displayed.
If you prefer, you can use the Menu Editor program. You must still create a KDE
Link file first, however.
To use the Menu Editor to add to your Personal Menu:
1.
Create a KDE Link file for the application that you want on your Per-
sonal menu.
2.
Open a file manager window so that the KDE Link file you created is
visible.
3.
Start the Menu Editor by choosing Panel|Edit Menus on the main
menu.
4.
Drag the KDE Link file from the file manager window and drop it on
the Personal menu (labeled Empty initially).
5.
Right-click on the new menu item you added and choose Change to
update the properties of the menu item as necessary.
6.
Right-click on the Empty menu item and choose Cut to remove it
from the Personal menu.