Add a menu item to KDE Launcher
- Right click on Kickoff.
- Edit applications...
- Mark the folder you want it in, e.g. Development. Click on New.
- Fill in the name you want.
- Add the actual command and click on the square next to name to change the icon. There is an icon in the eclipse directory.
- Click Save.
This was recently updated (KDE >= 5.19 at least), so the marked answer is no longer correct. To add a new program, do the following:
- Right click Application Launcher, select
Edit Applications... - Select
New Item - Fill it out and hit Save
Tested on centos-6.5 with kde plasma. Create an APP_NAME.desktop file as follows(Example for Yed graph editor application ) and place it into /usr/share/applications/.
[Desktop Entry]
Name=yEd Graph Editor
Comment=yEd Graph Editor
Exec=/opt/yed-3.18.2/yedcutor.sh
Icon=/opt/yed-3.18.2/icons/yicon16.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application