I am coming from windows and linux mint. I had Blender and unreal engine installed on mint.
Yesterday I installed cachyos and really liking it so far. It is a learning curve compared to others, but I am willing to learn.
Today I installed UE from source and I was wondering if there was a way to get it onto the cachyos taskbar without having to go into the UE folder and running it from the konsole.
In mint, all you had to do was right click and the logo (start menu), select configure, select menu, and open the menu editor. From there you are able to add UE or other type of software.
Not sure I am understanding what you are trying to do here but a few options pop into mind. First I am going to assume you went with the default desktop environment when installing CachyOS which is KDE.
On KDE everything you see on your panels (bars) are called “Widgets”. You can add, remove, and customize them to your liking. On the default bar the icons you see stock are on a widget called “Icons-Only Task Manager”. To add a new application to this you just open your application menu (start menu), right click the application and click “Pin To Task Manager”. It should now be on the bar with the rest of the applications. If you right click them from there you can unpin them as well.
Now lets say you decide to add another panel you want to customize. You want a launcher but you don’t want all the apps from the “Icons-Only Task Manager” being there. Well for this you right click the panel you want to customize, click “Add or Manage Widgets”, then search for a widget called “Quick Launch” add it. After that right click the quick launch icon that showed up and click “Add Launcher” then find the application and add it. You can add as few or as many as you want. If you want the group to stick together and get moved around together add them to that one quick launch. If you want another one somewhere else then add another quick launch widget and put the app or apps you want on that one.
Last idea is you mentioning the “Menu Editor” in Mint. KDE has the same thing. You just right click the application menu (start menu), click “Edit Applications” and there it is. A menu where you can fully customize the menu.