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hi guys,

i miss a program in kde that does the following:

i often install more than one app from kubunutu repositories. but when i finish, i cannot find these apps in the kde start-menu. to test them i have to remember their name and start them with krunner. if i like them i have to manually create menu-links for them.

so what i would need is a prog that shows all apps installed, kde, gtk, console, etc. sorted by type (kde4, kde3, gtk, ...) and by datetime installed, so i can easily find the latest ones and test them.

cheers
-incredion

"never choose a human to do a machine\'s job"
Agent Smith

Your proposal sounds like a solution for a problem that should not exist. Every graphical application should have a menu entry, if it does not it is a bug. Simple as that.

I also use the Kubuntu repositories and I can\'t think of a single time that it hasn\'t been added to the menu. Programs which have command line interfaces obviously do not.. but that\'s not really a KDE issue.

(N.b actually sometimes I have had to run "kbuildsycoa4" which refreshes it\'s local cache of menu entries before things appear)

But sorting by KDE 4, KDE 3, GTK would be good. And there are some applications which doesn\'t have a menu entry (here on openSUSE)

ah, I think I may have misinterpreted "cannot find" to mean they\'re not there, rather than that you cannot find them. Sorry.

I dislike the idea of sorting by toolkit used. Everyone is striving for interopability between desktop environments. Deliberately showing a seperation is a step in the wrong direction. If I want to burn a CD I don\'t give a damn what toolkit the application is written in.

Back on the original post:
Visit applications:/ in dolphin then click "sort by date" is that what partly what you want?

If there is actually a glitch in some of the applications you installed so that they don\'t add them selfs to the menu you can probably look for the application kAppFinder. This will search for binaries that can be included in your Kickstart . Additionally there used to be a menuitem called recently installed which lists what you ofcourse _recently installed_ so yeah maybe that is what yu are looking for.

It has been known for some apps to not appear in the menu. There is a tool for just such an occasion, however, KAppFinder.

If your distribution uses PackageKit, and you're on GNOME, you actually get this functionality (after installing an app, it shows where you'll find it in the menu and you can launch it directly after installation). An outdated screenshot of this can be seen here.

I guess that KPackageKit will be improved to also include this functionality soon. If your distribution doesn't use PackageKit, then you're out of luck I guess, but pretty much every distro is trying to integrate PackageKit atm (except for Fedora, because Fedora already has it completely integrated... Cutting edge as always) so all distros should have this feature sooner or later.