Kommando

Kommando is a "Neverwinter Nights" like wheelmenu for KDE. It allows rapid access to user defined applications and shell commands and is of course a nice toy to show off with ;-)

NOTE: Works best with a spare mousebutton and imwheel: http://imwheel.sourceforge.net/

INSTALL and README should cover all (well, most) questions.

UPGRADE FROM VERSION 0.1.x: please read INSTALL on how to go on using your custom settings (hope it was the last time I broke the configfile...)

UPGRADE FROM VERSION 0.3.0 or below:
The config file was put to the default kde config directory, read INSTALL for further informations

VERSION 0.5.0:
This version introduces several changes. First of all the kded patch has been made official, because i was tired of maintainig two branches and of course because I think it is a nice feature. Along with this Kommando is now configured through KControl. Just head to the section Desktop to find the config menu. These two patches have been created by Sergio Cambra. Thanks for your help!
Another neat thing are context sensitive menus. To see what they are good for, copy the included kommandorc file to the Kommando dir under ~/.kde/share/apps

Tested on SuSe 10.1 with KDE 3.5.5

In the tarball I provided a patch (thanks to Sergio Cambra), which lets you run kommando as a Kded module, so it runs in background and you are not bothered by the tray icon any longer. Informations can be found in the README.kded file. Thanks for testing!

There is a Gentoo ebuild by Baldrun Orv available. I put it on rapidshare and made an md5 hash available for the ones like me who don't trust hosting services...

21.08.2007 Kommando v0.5.2:
-clicking with the middle mousebutton excutes commands

16.11.2006 Kommando v0.5.1:
-added a "add menu from kmenu" feature (again a patch by Sergio)

14.11.2006 Kommando v0.5.0:
-added context sensitive menus
-running as kded module (huge thanks to Sergio Cambra)
-configuration via a KControl module (again thanks to Sergio)
-fixed button drawing code and eliminated flickering
-code cleanups (myself and Sergio Cambra)
-major refactoring of the menu code
-fixed some of my own most hated bugs

20.01.2006 Kommando v0.4.1:
IF v0.4.0 WORKS THERE IS NO NEED TO UPGRADE!
-fixed a compile bug
-corrected the application type to KUniqueApplication to make dcop work "properly" again
-automatically move config file to the new location (initial patch provided by Sune Vuorela)

17.01.2006 Kommando v0.4.0:
-added the possibiliy to customize the size of the buttons and the menu
-fixed buttons randomly changing their positions
-added controlls to change the order of the buttons
-moved the configfile to ~/.kde/share/apps/kommando, where it really belongs to
-added the ability to take over items from kmenu (thx to Sergio Cambra for the patch!)
-some enhancements throughout the whole code
-included a patch that lets Kommando run as Kded module (patch by Sergio Cambra)


15.11.2005 Kommando v0.3.0:
-improved the configuration dialog
-added the ability to adjust the opacity and the tint color of the background
-added keyboard and mousewheel navigation (read README)
-added new entries in the config file (there should be no compatibility problems though)
-added the dcop interface many people were hoping for
-made the Config class a singleton

30.09.2005 Kommando v0.2.0:
-major visual enhancements (needs testing on slower computers)
-configuration dialog added (click at tray icon)
-ability to remap the global shortcut added
-code restructuring

26.09.2005 v0.1.2
- fixed a really stupid configfile bug, thx to kdt for pointing it out

26.09.2005 v0.1.1
- minor bugfixes

26.09.2005 v0.1.0:
- initial release