Hi, OK, this sort of thing frustrates me to no end about KDE so I'd like to learn how this works (or in this case why it didn't) and then how to get things set up the way I want them.
I run Gentoo Linux and Virtualbox-4.3.8 on 3 different machines. On all of these machines when I've emerged Virtualbox I get, in the KDE menu system, under the heading Applications->System, an "Oracle xVM Virtualbox" icon where I can start the program. I typically right click and add this to the Favorites menu and I'm good to go. My son, now in his 20's, has decided it's time to move past being a Windows gamer and get more serious and decided he'd like to use Gentoo (me managing it remotely) but he needs a Windows VM for iTunes. To this end I've installed Gentoo on his machine and today installed Virtualbox. The install went fine but as you may have guessed by now there is no "Oracle xVM Virtualbox" icon anywhere to be found. (So far...) Why is it not where it is on all my other machines? If by chance it's somewhere in the KDE menus then how do I find it? This is a whole area that's very mysterious to me about KDE vs Windows. In Windows I can see properties of start icons by right clicking. In KDE I don't know how to do this. On the machines that have an icon in the menus I don't see how to tell what it's doing? I know it's running Virtualbox in this case but how does one determine what any general icon is doing? I've been reduced to watching for changes in top to see what program is started. I'm sure that's not the design goal here. Anyway, I want to learn how to manage these icons KDE has in the menus and would appreciate any pointers I can get, and thanks in advance for letting me vent. KDE is great but this part of it has frustrated me over and over again over the years. Cheers, Mark ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
