Holy moly! I much prefer, right click, drag to desktop, create shortcut! ;-)
> From: Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 2002/11/11 Mon PM 11:06:02 GMT+13:00
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Cornelius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: How to create a short-cut icon on KDE desktop - Was: Re: Microsoft OS's for
>free?
>
> > Precisely. It's getting the icon on the desktop in the first place, in
> > order to avoid having to wade through the K menus.
>
> Piece of Kake under KDE, kere's what you do:-
>
> 1) Open a Konsole shell window.
> 2) Issue the command 'locate soffice' -- What's between the quotes.
> 3) One of the lines from the previous will be something like:-
> /opt/OpenOffice.org1.0.1/program/soffice
> 4) Click on it twice rapidly -- it will go into reverse video.
> 5) Right click on the KDE background
> 6) Place mouse-pointer on menu entry at top -- Create New. Another menu pops
> up. Left-Click on existing menu.
> 7) Move mouse-pointer down to Link to Application in new menu-- Small
> Cogwheel.
> 8) Left click -- Create Icon window pops up
> 9) Overwrite the "Link to Application" with the name you want to appear as the
> caption to the new short-cut icon.
> 10) Left-Click on the Cogwheel.
> 11) Left-Click on the small Other Icons: button.
> 12) Go back to Konsole shell window.
> 13) Issue the command:- 'locate star_butterfly.png'
> 14) Click on the output line twice -- Same as 4 above.
> 15) Go back to the "Select Icon -- Konqueror" window.
> 16) Left-Click on the rectangular browse button. -- Big window pops up.
> 17) Left-Click in the Location: data entry window towards bottom of screen.
> 18) Middle-Click in same window.
> 19) Left-Click OK button to right. -- Window closes, Seagulls icon appears
> replacing cogwheel
> 10) Left-click on the Execute Tab.
> 11) Move mouse pointer to the top data entry line labelled Command:
> 12) Left click, and then middle click. -- the path to the program which you
> saved in the X-11 clipboard in step 4 above --
> /opt/OpenOffice.org1.0.1/program/soffice -- will now appear in the window.
> 13) Left-Click on the OK button at the bottom right of the window.
> 14) Left-Click on the new icon and twiddle you thumbs while OpenOfficeOrg
> starts up.
> 15) Exercise literacy skills.
>
> Score: 5 - ( Informative )
>
> Much easier to do than to describe.
>
> --
> Sincerely etc.,
> Christopher Sawtell
>
