The K Desktop Environment

The Kicker Handbook

Version 0.09.00
Last updated: 10/10/2000

Milos Prudek

milos.prudek@worldonline.cz

Reviewer: Lauri Watts

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Kicker is your KDE Start button and much more.


Table of Contents
1. Introduction
1.1. Kicker Revision History
2. Five-minute Fly-over Course of Kicker (for the experienced and for the impatient)
3. Installation
3.1. How to obtain Kicker
3.1.1. Requirements
3.1.2. Compilation and installation
4. Configuration
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Configuration Window
4.2.1. General Page
4.2.2. Look & Feel Page
4.2.3. Menus Page
4.2.4. Buttons Page
4.2.5. Applets Page
4.2.6. Action Buttons
4.3. Adding buttons
5. Using Kicker
5.1. Menu Items
5.1.1. Logout
5.1.2. Lock Screen
5.1.3. About KDE...
5.1.4. Panel Menu
5.1.5. Run...
5.1.6. Quick Browser
5.1.7. Recent Documents
5.1.8. Home Directory
5.1.9. Help Center
5.1.10. Find Files
5.1.11. Control Center
5.2. The Elements of The Kicker Panel
5.2.1. Hide Buttons
5.2.2. Basic Icons
5.2.3. Other Icons
5.3. Icon preferences
5.3.1. General
5.3.2. Permissions
5.3.3. Execute
5.3.4. Application
6. Other Features
6.1. Applets
6.1.1. Clock
6.1.2. Example
6.1.3. Kasbar
6.1.4. Pager
6.1.5. Application Launcher
6.1.6. System Tray
6.1.7. Taskbar
6.1.8. Quick Launcher
6.1.9. KMix Applet
6.1.10. System Monitor
6.2. Drag and drop operations
6.2.1. Dragging the Panel
6.2.2. Dragging Applications
6.2.3. Applet Handles
7. Kicker for Admins
7.1. Menu Storage
7.2. Symbolic Links
8. Credits and License
Glossary