Application Menu Shortcut KDE

Option 1: GUI

Right click on the app launcher and select Edit Applications from the menu. This should launch a menu editor. Make the desired edits and save them.

Option 2: Terminal

The menu applications are stored in /usr/share/applications/. If you want to make an edit to an existing application, edit the file: application_NAME.desktop. You can search for it using: ls | grep 'search_term'.[^ripgep] Don’t forget to use sudo for editing the file.

If you want to add a new application, create a new .desktop file:

cd /usr/share/applications/
sudo touch program-shortcut.desktop
sudo chmod +x program-shortcut.desktop
sudo nano program-shortcut.desktop

Edit the .desktop file by adding the following

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Display Name
GenericName=Monitor Settings
Comment=Add a description and other words to improve searchability
Exec=/path/to/bin
Icon=/path/to/icon
Terminal=false #to start a terminal or not
Type=Application
Categories=GTK;Settings;HardwareSettings;

Note that you can run python programs using Exec=python /path/to/python/app. Similarly, for other languages!