I can reproduce with a pure kde4 install (no kde3.5 except for kdelibs). IN my
case, the icons are both the same, and the result invoking one or another is
same again.
So maybe is a little bug which does not discrimine two identical results.
On Friday 25 July 2008 22:05:58 Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > If I type 'kons' into krunner I get two entries
> >
> > Default: Konsole (Application)
> > Konsole (Application)
> >
> > They have different icons.
> >
> > Is there a difference, or is this a 4.0 oddity?
>
> Yes... well, sort-of, probably.
>
> Typically when I go to start something from krunner (I'll use konsole as
> the example), what happens is it finds two things: konsole.desktop in
> your XDG dirs (i.e. a menu item named "Konsole"), and an executable
> program in $PATH named "konsole". The former should have a "correct"
> icon while the latter will be a gear (the generic 'executable' icon).
> Most likely Konsole.desktop will invoke the same 'konsole' that is in
> $PATH, so it shouldn't matter which you pick. However, the second one in
> that case is "run konsole", and the first (for me, anyway) is "Konsole:
> terminal".
>
> It sounds like you may be running into something else that happens to me
> on occasion, namely, two .desktop entries. In that case they are
> probably different (I'd even say there's a decent chance one is broken,
> or perhaps if you have KDE3 installed also, one might be the KDE3
> Konsole), but without at least seeing a screenshot it's hard to guess
> what's going on.
>
> At any rate, there is probably a reason, and hopefully I have explained
> enough for you to have a decent guess at why you have more than one 'hit'.
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