[COLUG] KDE Questions

[Mark Erbaugh]

I've been using Ubuntu / Gnome for over a year and have gotten
comfortable moving around using the Nautilus file manager.

I'm trying to get up to speed with Kubuntu / KDE. It seems slower
navigating in Dolphin than in Nautilus.  I'm guessing that's because of
all the eye-candy.  I've tried to disable as much of that as I can. I
can't find any way to disable the animated bouncing wait cursor.

One of the things that has really increased my productivity in Nautilus
is shell scripts. I often use different application to work with a file
so I don't want to rely on the mime type to pick an application for me.

I use Nautilus to find the file I want to work with, right click on it
and select the appropriate shell script to launch the desired
application.

Is there something similar to Nautilus shell scripts in Dolphin?  I've
come across service menus but that looks like a lot of work to set one
up as compared to dropping a shell script into a folder.

Thanks,
Mark