Plasma application launchers: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 21:27, 9 August 2010

There are alternative "start menu" style Plasma application launchers in the KDE platform, including:

	Kickoff The default application launcher that provides a click-through interface for finding and launching applications. Kickoff has a search facitility, allowing you to type the name of the application or its description to find it.
	Lancelot Lancelot is a powerful application launcher which also allows launch menus to be placed on the panel. Lancelot provides search facilities, so if you know the name of the application you don't need to find your way around the menu.

There is also KRunner, which replaces the "run command" dialog, blurs the lines between desktop search, application launcher and command executor and provides a quick way to run applications or open documents.

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
 {{Template:I18n/Language Navigation Bar|Plasma_application_launchers}}
-There are alternative "start menu" style Plasma application launchers in the KDE platform:
+There are alternative "start menu" style Plasma application launchers in the KDE platform, including:
-* [[Kickoff]] which is the current default application launcher - a click through menu
-* [[Lancelot]] which reacts to hover, and can separate parts of the menu structure for use on the panel
-* and others are in preparation.
-Both Kickoff and Lancelot have search facilities.  If you know the name of the application you don't need to find your way around the menu.
+{|cellpadding="4"
+|-
+|<imagemap>
+Image:Plasma.png|48px
+default <translate><!--T:14-->
+[[Plasma/Kickoff|Kickoff]]</translate>
+desc none
+</imagemap>||'''<translate><!--T:15-->
+[[Plasma/Kickoff|Kickoff]]</translate>'''
+:<translate><!--T:16-->
+The default application launcher that provides a click-through interface for finding and launching applications. Kickoff has a search facitility, allowing you to type the name of the application or its description to find it.</translate>
+|-
+|<imagemap>
+Image:Lancelot.png|48px
+default <translate><!--T:32-->
+[[Lancelot|Lancelot]]</translate>
+desc none
+</imagemap>||'''<translate><!--T:33-->
+[[Lancelot|Lancelot]]</translate>'''
+:<translate><!--T:34-->
+Lancelot is a powerful application launcher which also allows launch menus to be placed on the panel. Lancelot provides search facilities, so if you know the name of the application you don't need to find your way around the menu.</translate>
+|}
-In addition to this [[KRunner]], which replaces the "run command" dialogue, blurs the lines between desktop search, application launcher and command executor and provides a quick way to run applications or open documents.
+There is also [[KRunner]], which replaces the "run command" dialog, blurs the lines between desktop search, application launcher and command executor and provides a quick way to run applications or open documents.
 [[Category:Desktop]]