Adding game to application launcher after installation on Linux KDE Plasma

[Antonius]

Hello,
When installing a game, the user is presented with the option to add a shortcut to the desktop, and/or to the application launcher. When right clicking on an installed game, you can add it to your desktop if you change your mind later, but I do not see a way to add it to the application launcher. How would one go about doing this without re-installing every game?
In my case, I am on Linux.

[Satoru]

Do you mean the option where you can auto select a specific launch option for a game?

[Antonius]

I mean to add the game to Application Launcher (the KDE equivalent to the Windows 10 Start Menu that comes up when you press the Windows key once).
When installing a game, you are presented with the option to add a shortcut to your desktop, and also have the option to add a shortcut to the Start Menu. But after having installed the game, if you change your mind later on, there is only the option to add the shortcut to the desktop, no option for the Start Menu.

[Antonius]

So I found out the KDE way of manually adding entries to the application launcher instead of trying to do it via a Steam gui.
You use the KDE Menu Editor to manually create an entry in the desired directory ("Games" in this case), and fill out the entry with the

Name: [Game name, or whatever you want, really]

Comment: Play this game on Steam [which is just a comment, but standard on other steam entries, so just for the sake of uniformity]

Program: steam

Command-Line Arguments: steam://rungameid/[id-number]


And you can add the appropriate entry icon in the same menu so that the game icon will appear on the application launcher (search "steam" for quicker icon finds).
Don't forget to save.