Do-It-Yourself Konqueror Commands

“KDE’s Konqueror is as multifunctional as a Swiss Army knife. It
works as both a file manager and a Web browser, and you can enhance
it even further by adding new commands to its repertoire by means
of service menus. The new commands appear in Konqueror’s context
menu when you right-click a file. Here’s how to create service
menus, and some specific commands that you might want to use in
them.

“Service menus are specified with .desktop files. In KDE 3.5,
global service menus (those available to all users) reside at
/opt/kde3/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus. If you’re just
creating a service menu for your own use, create the file in your
specific KDE directory, which you can find out by using kde-config
–localprefix; in my case, it’s
/home/fkereki/.kde3/share/apps/konqueror/service.

“You can pick any name for your service menu file, as long as it
ends with .desktop. For instance, suppose you want to create a menu
command to count words and lines in text files without opening a
console window and using wc. You can create
count_words_and_lines.desktop in your KDE directory using any text
editor.

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