To restore the default KMenu:
rm ~/.config/menus/applications-kmenuedit.menu

I found an article describing how to tweak how Kicker looks. I wrote about this before but this site includes a few tips the KDE wiki article does not include.
Interestingly you can add some text to your KMenu button:
[KMenu]
ShowText=true
Text=Some Text

That looks hideous, so I don’t use it. But you can. I do […]

This little article gives instructions on how to make your input controls (input fields, buttons, drop-down lists) look nicer in Linux. I tried and it worked pretty well. The buttons end up very slightly rounded, which is better than the GTK1-like crudely-3D blocky things I had otherwise. The colors of the controls […]

I haven’t done much with my GUI for a good long while. I’ve been more focused on making it functional rather than pretty. I decided to see what I’ve been missing the the realm of KDE theming. Apparently I’ve been missing a lot. This Domino theme is on par with anything […]

I previously prattled on about what the right abstraction should be for an icon theme. I said a hierarchy of subclasses would work.
I was very wrong. It didn’t work at all. For example I tried to write a == method for my Icon class. With the class structure I was using […]

I scrapped the throw-away version of the KDE Gnome theme converter script which I started many months ago, and started over. I’m trying to do it “right” this time.
It looks like the same index.theme files (if properly written) can be read by Gnome and KDE both, which is nice. I […]

I changed back to KDE today on a whim. This means I can start working again on my Gnome KDE icon converter script that I started way back. This is necessary because most of the icon themes for KDE are essentially hideous.
Every time I start using KDE again after a […]

I bounce back and forth from Gnome to KDE very regularly; I’m not really the kind of person who views this as a religious argument. What’s the point of having so much delicious choice in Linux if you don’t take advantage? Over the years I’ve given lenghty tries to openbox, fluxbox, xfce4, and […]

I tried out this new xeffects overlay. Apparently it comes with some patched kdelibs ebuilds. These things cause massive system breakage for me. Trying to start X and KDE fails with some kind of fatal IO error code 104. This is such a hard bug to figure out. It leaves […]

Let me just be the 57th person to blog that I like Amarok. A lot. Best audio player ever, and like many Linux users I’ve tried a lot. XMMS, BMP, MPD + lots of clients, Rhythmbox, Quod Libet, Banshee, some others I’m probably forgetting. Clearly Amarok is better than Winamp (especially […]