There were things I hated about kickoff, but one of the really good things was the Add to Favourites / Add to Panel context menu. There are many things I like about Lancelot, but it seems to lack the Add to Panel. Is it really not present, or does it do things a different way?

As long as the widgets are unlocked, just drag and drop whatever you want to the panel.

Ah - I'd tried that a couple of times, without success. Perhaps I let go too soon, or maybe the fairly full task manager upset it. Anyway, now that you've assured me it works I did manage to do it, thanks.

I've explained this a couple of times now, but it will not hurt to repeat (now that the whole theme is dedicated to a single problem)

Technical part:
So, unlike Kickoff, Lancelot is a separate application from Plasma. So, I am not able to add anything to it directly.

One possibility would be to pass the message from the menu to the launcher applet (the icon button) to add the application to panel (or desktop). This would be rather ugly and would induce a lot of inner work so that only one of the launcher applets react to the message (you can have many applets, but Lancelot, the application, is always singleton).

Other parts:
- It is ambiguous to 'add to panel' when someone has more than one. It would be even worse to 'Add to panel 1', 'Add to panel 2', ... 'Add to desktop 1', ...
- Drag and drop is the Plasma way. There are some issues with panel which sometimes make the DnD a tad difficult, but it should work most of the time.

Almost every part of Lancelot can be dragged to panel/desktop - from a single application, to whole lists like the 'Recent documents'... See: http://lancelot.fomentgroup.org/docs:basic-parts

Cheerio!

Thanks for the explanation of 'the workings' of Lancelot. I wasn't complaining, you understand - I acknowledge that my mouse control has never been good

As for your Lancelot parts, I'll explore that further. It sounds to me as though that may be the answer when people want to put launcher menus onto the panel. Putting Favourites there might be just what they need.

You're welcome! I'm always glad to help nice Lancelot users

Thanks for this thread - due to the encouragement that DnD to the panel actually does work, I tried this again and Yay! I have tried this numerous times in the past but never got it to work.

For me I think the problem was (like Annew) I was letting go too quickly. This time I was patient at let the icon/mouse rest on the panel for a second or two and then a small empty box showed up - once the box was on the panel, I could then release the icon and it stayed on the panel. I was never aware before that I needed to wait for the small box before I let go of the icon.

EDIT: Annew was also correct in that the Task Manager cannot be full - there must be empty space on the panel.