The K Desktop Environment

5.3. Icon preferences

When you right click any icon on the panel, you will get a local menu that lets you move and remove the icon, and also lets you access the panel menu. Except for Window List and Desktop toggle, you can also access preferences for that particular icon.

The properties dialog consists of four tabs: General, Permissions, Execute and Application.

5.3.1. General

There is only one field that may be changed: The .desktop file name. Changing the entry will change the filename as well; thus data integrity is guaranteed. You cannot change the entry if you do not hold sufficient permissions in the file location.

The Type field describes the type of this file.

Location displays the location of this file within your filesystem.

Size is displayed in the most suitable unit (kB, MB etc.), with the exact size in parentheses.

Three lowest fields display the time and date when this file was created, the last time it was modified and the last time it was accessed (opened).

5.3.2. Permissions

Check the permissions that you want to grant to the file owner, to the file group and to other users. Remember that .desktop files do not need to have Execute enabled to run the application. You will not be able to change permissions for files located in directories for which you do not have write permissions. Administrator of your system can change any permission and also the file ownership.

Note that file ownership is displayed below the file permissions checkboxes.

5.3.3. Execute

The Execute page specifies Program Name (the file name to be executed, with optional parameters).

If the executable can be embedded in the panel, you can specify what program will be executed when you click the embedded executable, and you can also specify the window title.

Check Run in terminal checkbox if this executable must be run in a terminal emulator. You can also specify the options for running the program in terminal window.

You can specify that this program should run as a different user, and specify the Username.

5.3.4. Application

Specify the long name of the file in the Name field. You can also write a short comment.

You can choose which file types are handled by this particular program. You can specify multiple file types by moving them from the list on the right to the list on the left by clicking the double left arrow and double right arrow buttons.