Adding application launchers to Plasma 5 panel

[Rex Dieter]

Roderick Johnstone wrote:

> Hi again
> 
> While this prescription seems to work for the current user and the
> configuration (as well as other panel customisations) seems to be saved
> in a file /home/<user>/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc,
> when I copy that file to /etc/xdg it doesn't seem to be used by a new
> account as the default panel configuration in the same way that eg a
> copy of kwinrc in /etc/xdg is.
> 
> Does the configuration of the default panel work in a different way?

Yes, plasma (and it's applets) don't typically use the usual kde kconfig 
system.

Plasma customization can be achieved by writing javascript snippets, see 
also:
https://techbase.kde.org/KDE_System_Administration/PlasmaDesktopScripting

-- rex