This is a funny question:
I was clicking around, setting up how I wanted my KDE program menu to look and I somehow managed to do what the following snapshot shows:

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h1...didIdoThis.jpg (a Search bar, so all I have to do is type in what program I'm looking for and it highlights where it is in the menu.)

I don't remember how I got that feature enabled. I wanted to tell my son-in-law how to do this also but I just couldn't find where I clicked to enable it. Does anyone know?

alt+F1 maybe

Thank you but how does one get the search bar on top of the menu enabled? That's what I wanted to know. The search bar on top is not there in the default look.

it might be that it wasn't available in 10.0 or in the version of KDE you are using, it appears that it's not a kde standard but a Suse customization - see http://dot.kde.org/1161876578/1161882944/,

have you tried TastyMenu?

maybe upgrade kde to 3.58 or 3.59 if possible?

upgrading KDE is out of the question for me. SuSE 10.0 is end of life so Novell does not provide anymore rpm's for it.

Thanks for the link! I see now that yes, it is a SuSE only thing. Too bad. The person who was writing about it in that forum liked it very much as do I and it is very useful!

Like the person [max] said:
"You have installed a new application. What do you do? Search all of your K-menu hierarchie? Is Google Picasa under Graphics/editor or Graphics/viewer or Graphics/photography or additional programs or...?

"KDE does not support highlighting of newly installed program entries (as WinXP does). So a search bar is the only way to quickly find a random program."

to quote myself "try TastyMenu" - it has what you're looking for inc. highlighting

http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=41866