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    Dolphin Icons, Unix Manual

    2 questions:
    1: Dolphin now uses cute little icons to differentiate file type and folders. The Dolphin Help manual is totally silent on the icon meanings. Do they expound on the icons and what they signify anywhere? I have found 6 different icons for files in one folder. For 'executable' files they seem to use a green square with a right pointing triangle. I get different symbols overlaid when I place the cursor on the icon.

    2:Unix Manual: KDE used to have a help section under the kicker icon in the panel. It seems to have been deemed no longer useful or necessary. That mystifies me. I guess nobody uses Unix commands anymore or they have infallible memory in their heads to immediately access all Unix commands. Fortunately I still do and I do not have an infallible memory in my head to remember all (or even a small fraction) of them and I am losing the memory of more of them every year. Now I do have a paper book that lists all of them. I forget how many hundreds of pages it is. I do have it on DVD as a pdf document. Unfortunately neither is a very good method of quickly looking up a system function call or user command. Is the html version that I used to be able to access under the "Help" section of the kicker still available anywhere?

    ;'man' is good if I already remember the exact system function or user command, not so good otherwise. The html document previously available was good since I could skim through the list to narrow down the search or find the one needed.

    #2
    1) You probably mean the mime type icons i.e. an icon representing a specific file format.

    Andreas Kainz has been blogging of the Breeze mime type icons:
    -> Planet KDE: https://planetkde.org/
    --> https://kdeonlinux.wordpress.com/:

    - Breeze mimetype WIP: https://kdeonlinux.wordpress.com/201...-mimetype-wip/
    - Mimetype updates: https://kdeonlinux.wordpress.com/201...etype-updates/

    2) KHelpCenter ?
    ( https://userbase.kde.org/KHelpCenter )

    The Unix manuals are there:



    The KHelpCenter has been moved from the Plasma to the KDE Applications - remove khelpcenter from next Plasma release?: https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/plasm...ch/050360.html

    Can be launched with the command (KRunner/KIckoff/Kicker/Mangonell/...):
    Code:
    help
    At here the launcher button for the KHelpCenter was at the top level of the KDE menu



    moving it to the System...

    Before you edit, BACKUP !

    Why there are dead links ?
    1. Thread: Please explain how to access old kubuntu forum posts
    2. Thread: Lost Information

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      #3
      1. The icons for various filetypes are "mimetypes" in your icon set. You can change them en masse by changing your icon theme or individually by right-clicking on the icon, selecting "Properties" then "File Type Options" and picking a different one. The overlay symbols are a plus-sign if the file has not been selected or minus-sign if it has been selected. Clicking on the plus or minus will invert the selection - change selected to not-selected or vis-versa. You can always use the old typical methods of file selection.

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        #4
        I'm sorry but you totally lost me.

        Originally posted by Rog131 View Post
        1) You probably mean the mime type icons i.e. an icon representing a specific file format.

        Andreas Kainz has been blogging of the Breeze mime type icons:
        -> Planet KDE: https://planetkde.org/
        --> https://kdeonlinux.wordpress.com/:

        - Breeze mimetype WIP: https://kdeonlinux.wordpress.com/201...-mimetype-wip/
        - Mimetype updates: https://kdeonlinux.wordpress.com/201...etype-updates/

        2) KHelpCenter ?
        ( https://userbase.kde.org/KHelpCenter
        I'm sorry, but I looked there and could not find the Unix manual at all.

        The Unix manuals are there:



        The KHelpCenter has been moved from the Plasma to the KDE Applications - remove khelpcenter from next Plasma release?: https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/plasm...ch/050360.html

        Can be launched with the command (KRunner/KIckoff/Kicker/Mangonell/...):
        Code:
        help
        I tried your above command even though it seems to be truncated. As I suspected I got: bash: KRunner/KIckoff/Kicker/Mangonell: No such file or directory


        At here the launcher button for the KHelpCenter was at the top level of the KDE menu



        moving it to the System...

        Okay - now that totally lost me. I cannot move it since it is not under the Kicker menu or any sub-menus.

        It must be a bad day for me. Your reply just has me totally confused. I understood the part about the developers wanting to get rid of the Unix Manual since it was not being maintained. That really makes me sad, but nothing I can do about it. If I added anything more on top of my to-do lists (mine and my wife's - reverse that order!), I doubt she would speak to me and that would sadden me even more.

        Okay - Looked at the last part of your post again and that clarified for what you wrote. You were showing the kicker menu editor. I brought that up and sure enough the "Help" app was listed at the top level like you indicated. I then moved it to make it an item under the system menu, saved the change and clicked on the kicker icon, then "system" and there was "Help". Clicked that and the Unix manual was now available. That is BIG help.
        Last edited by geezer; Jan 03, 2017, 04:01 PM. Reason: fix misunderstanding

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