Bug 369167

Summary: Action to edit app's .desktop file in the context menu
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Michail Vourlakos <mvourlakos>
Component: Task Manager and Icons-Only Task Manager widgetsAssignee: Eike Hein <hein>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: kde, markjamescapella, nate, plasma-bugs-null, stereator
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.7.4   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Michail Vourlakos 2016-09-21 17:31:02 UTC 
There is the following idea in the forums...

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say you see Speedcrunch' launcher icon being ugly, knowing KDE you can go to kmenuedit, guess which is its category or go through different ones to find its entry and then change it. Alternatively you can replace the icon manually on filesystem level. But from the usability or friendliness to newcomers standpoint, it would be neat to just right click on an icons-only appicon (in the taskmanager) and select "change icon"...
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I found it very interesting...

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Kai Uwe Broulik 2016-10-05 13:52:28 UTC 
In theory we could invoke the application editor from the launchers, just as we do in kickoff/kicker menu. I don't know if we should clutter task bar menus even further, though.
Comment 2 Michail Vourlakos 2016-10-05 18:28:41 UTC 
I believe it would be ok but VDG could also be questioned...
from a personal perspective, I find many times myself trying to change the icon used from an application, e.g. when it is a very old application and doesnt have a good resolution for its icon

does the application editor let you change the icon for a launcher?
in my plasma 5.7 it doesnt support that yet I think...
Comment 3 Michail Vourlakos 2016-10-05 18:38:04 UTC 
Kai sorry, I just discovered that with unlocked state in the desktop the icon can be changed in the application editor...
Comment 4 Eike Hein 2016-10-06 02:04:04 UTC 
Kai FWIW this is a little complicated because editing writes out a new .desktop file, so the launcher URL then needs to change. It doesn't matter for the menu case because the resulting sycoca update causes a rebuild.
Comment 5 Nate Graham 2025-12-09 01:08:11 UTC 
*** Bug 512772 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***