Keyword “easily”. Having to figure out the scheme for those files and where to exactly put them is not user-friendly. And from searching online, there’s vague edgecases that cause it to not get recognized by the task bar properly.
But it is neat trick for those who tinker a bit more I suppose.
right click on a program’s icon in the start menu, like kate.
click “edit application”.
switch to the “application” tab.
change what’s in the “name” field.
click “ok”.
you can have overrides for .desktop files, and the name is stored there
Keyword “easily”. Having to figure out the scheme for those files and where to exactly put them is not user-friendly. And from searching online, there’s vague edgecases that cause it to not get recognized by the task bar properly.
But it is neat trick for those who tinker a bit more I suppose.
ok, got it. this applies to KDE Plasma.
right click on a program’s icon in the start menu, like kate.
click “edit application”.
switch to the “application” tab.
change what’s in the “name” field.
click “ok”.
I think this should be doing the same thing
This only works if your distro is set up in a way that allows it. SteamOS doesn’t seem to allow it for example, see https://github.com/ValveSoftware/SteamOS/issues/1744
that seems like a plasma bug made visible by a distro quirk
It probably is, yes. But somehow I feel like I run into all of those bugs :(.
yeah I often feel similarly. like, the KDE Akonadi calendar-contacts-whatnot system is so so buggy
That seems related to it being immutable and is probably something Valve will fix as Bazzite does not have this issue.
I mean it won’t work if you rip out your hard drive either, but usually things are custom managed in those situations by whoever created them.
(Ex. Nixos is the same, but not really a problem cause you expect to manage it within nix)
KDE Menu Editor makes that easier (pretty sure that’s the one for .desktop files)