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Saturday, March 3rd 2007, 5:41pm

KMenu Button with Caption?

I wonder if it's possible to display a caption next to the KDE menu button, similar to Windows' "Start" without installing kbfx?

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Saturday, March 3rd 2007, 7:29pm

Nope

You need a kmenu replacement, like kbfx, kickoff or tastymenu.

kmenu only supports a square icon.
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Sunday, March 4th 2007, 2:36am

It's actually possible. But the end effect is not what I would exactly call pretty. What it merely does is to add a text beside the square K Menu icon.

Go to the ~/.kde/share/config/ and open up the kickerrc file in your text editor. Then add these lines

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[KMenu]
ShowText=true
Text=Launch


Substitute "Launch" for whatever name you want to use. Then restart Kicker by pressing Alt+F2 and entering the following command:

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dcop kicker kicker restart


Hope that helps a bit.
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Sunday, March 4th 2007, 9:03am

Thanks, it helps a lot.

I agree that the result isn't very pretty, mainly because kicker mysteriously seems to ignore the system's font selection. But hey, at least there's some text now.
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Sunday, March 4th 2007, 9:59am

There might be a way to improve that appearance a bit. Right-click on the panel, select Configure Panel, and go to the Appearance options. You can set a button background color or choose from some preset images for the K Menu. Fortunately, this color/image setting affects both the icon and the text.

If you're an artists of sorts, you can make your own background image for the K Menu items. Look at the built-in ones in $KDEDIR/share/apps/kicker/tiles/ directory. Make your own, then put them in $KDEHOME/share/apps/kicker/tiles/ or in $KDEDIR/share/apps/kicker/tiles/ if you want them to be available system-wide.

Hope that helps.
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Sunday, March 4th 2007, 1:24pm

That led me to the grand plan of using a bunch of spaces as text to stretch the button and simply draw the caption in a decent font on the background. Needless to say that it didn't exactly work out, because spaces get stripWhiteSpaced and Tabs are displayed as boxes...

Thank you very much for your help, but I think it's time to accept my fate and take a look at tastymenu ;)
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