<othercredit role="translator"><firstname>John</firstname><surname>Knight</surname><affiliation><address><email>anarchist_tomato@herzeleid.net</email></address></affiliation><contrib>Conversion to British English</contrib></othercredit>
<para>&kmenuedit; allows editing of &kde; Main menu.</para>
<para>&kmenuedit; can be started either by right-clicking <inlinemediaobject><imageobject><imagedata fileref="i_k_button.png" format="PNG"/></imageobject></inlinemediaobject> the <guiicon>K</guiicon> Button, or by choosing <guimenuitem>Menu Edit</guimenuitem> from the <guisubmenu>System</guisubmenu> submenu of the <guimenu>Main</guimenu> menu.</para>
<para>The left application panel shows the Main menu structure. When you browse items in the left panel, the right panel shows detailed information for the highlighted menu item.</para>
<listitem><para>This is the name of your program as it appears in the <guimenu>Main</guimenu> menu. It can be different from the real executable name. For instance the name of <command>mc</command> executable is "<application>Midnight Commander</application>".</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Specify the work path of the program. This will be the current path when the program launches. It does not need to be the same as the executable location.</para></listitem>
fileref="icon_sets.png" format="PNG"/></imageobject></inlinemediaobject> Click this icon to display a choice of icons. Choose an icon for your program.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>You must check this if your program requires terminal emulator in order to run. This mainly applies to <link linkend="gloss-console-application">console applications</link>.</para></listitem>
<term><guilabel>Run as different user</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>If you want to run this program as a different user (not you), check this checkbox, and provide the username in the <guilabel>Username</guilabel> field.</para></listitem>
<para>Click the empty button to the right of the <guilabel>Current key</guilabel> checkbox and press the key combination on your keyboard that you want to be assigned to your program.</para>
<para>A dialogue box will pop up, allowing you to assign a second keybinding to the same item by checking the <guilabel>Alternate</guilabel> button. This might be useful, for example, if you often switch keyboard maps, and some shortcuts are not as convenient to type at all times.</para>
<para>Click the <guiicon>x</guiicon> to clear the shortcut, if you made a mistake. Check the <guilabel>Multi-Key</guilabel> box if you want to assign a shortcut that uses more than one key.</para>
<para>By default the <guilabel>Auto-Close</guilabel> box is checked, and the dialogue will close when you have selected a keybinding. Uncheck it if you want the dialogue to stay open.</para>
<listitem><para><action>Cuts the current menu item to the clipboard.</action> If you want to move menu item, you should first cut it to the clipboard, move to the destination place using the left panel, and use the <guimenuitem>Paste</guimenuitem> function to paste the menu item from the clipboard.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><action>Copies the current menu item to the clipboard</action>. You can later use the <guimenuitem>Paste</guimenuitem> function to paste the copied menu itemfrom the clipboard to its destination. You can paste the same item many times.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><action>Paste menu item from the clipboard</action> to currently selected place in the <guimenu>Main</guimenu> menu. You must first use <guimenuitem>Cut</guimenuitem> or <guimenuitem>Copy</guimenuitem> before you can <guimenuitem>Paste</guimenuitem>.</para></listitem>
<para>Terminal emulator is simply a windowed shell; this is known as <quote>command line window</quote> in some other environments. If you want to use the shell, you should know at least a few of the system-level commands for your operating system.</para>
<glossdef><para>A small application that occupies very little memory and screen space, and at the same time gives you some useful information or provides a control shortcut. For instance the <application>Clock</application> applet shows current time and date (and even a month diary if you click it), and <application>System Monitor</application> applet shows how busy your machine currently is in real-time.</para> </glossdef>
<para>An X-window application which was not written with &kde; in mind. Such applications run fine in &kde;. However, they are not warned automatically when you shut down your &kde; session. You therefore must not forget to save documents open in these applications before you log out from &kde;. </para> <para>Additionally, many of these applications do not support copying and pasting from &kde; compliant applications. &Netscape; 4.x browser is a prominent example of such application <footnote><para>Some <ulink url="http://www.gnome.org">GNOME</ulink> applications may provide limited interoperability with the &kde;.</para></footnote>.</para>
<para>Application originally written for non-graphic, text oriented environment. Such applications run fine in &kde;. They must run within console emulator, like &konsole;. They are not warned automatically when you shut down your &kde; session. You therefore must not forget to save documents open in these applications before you log out from the &kde;.</para>
<para>Console applications support copying and pasting from KDE-compliant applications.Simply mark the text in the console application with your mouse, switch to the KDE-compliant application and press <keycombo action="simul">&Ctrl; <keycap>V</keycap></keycombo> to paste the text. If you want to copy from &kde; application to a console application, first mark the text with your mouse, press <keycombo action="simul">&Ctrl; <keycap>C</keycap></keycombo>, switch to the console application and press the middle button on your mouse<footnote><para>If your mouse does not have a middle button, you must press <mousebutton>left</mousebutton> and <mousebutton>right</mousebutton> button at the same time. This is called <quote>middle button emulation</quote> and it must be supported by your operating system to work.</para></footnote>.</para>
