Plasma application launchers: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 16:26, 3 December 2009

There are alternative "start menu" style Plasma application launchers in the KDE project:

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.

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.

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-There are three "start menu" style Plasma application launchers in the KDE project:
+There are alternative "start menu" style Plasma application launchers in the KDE project:
-* [[Kickoff]] which is the current default application launcher,
+* [[Kickoff]] which is the current default application launcher - a click through menu
-* [[Lancelot]] which is available for [http://lancelot.fomentgroup.org/download download] now and will be included in KDE 4.2, and
+* [[Lancelot]] which reacts to hover, and can separate parts of the menu structure for use on the panel
-* [[Raptor]] which is still under development.
+* 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.
 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.
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