[Fwd: "Installshield" like Desktop Icon & menu bar (fwd)]

[Remo Strotkamp <remo ccrl nj nec com>]

Forward this for somebody I don't even know, but I'm just to nice of a
person....

remo

Todd Graham Lewis wrote:

> Woops!  I'm not subscribed; I read gnome-list through a local news
> gateway, so I can't post this.  Can you forward this to the list for me?
>
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> Todd Graham Lewis                        Postmaster, MindSpring Enterprises
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> "A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood."          -- George S. Patton
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 09:28:38 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Todd Graham Lewis <tlewis@mindspring.net>
> To: Wilson Lim <tc98006@ee.ucl.ac.uk>
> Cc: gnome-list@gnome.org
> Subject: Re: "Installshield" like Desktop Icon & menu bar
>
> (N.b., originally to gnome-web-maint)
>
> On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Wilson Lim wrote:
>
> > Subject : "Installshield" like Desktop Icon & menu bar
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there any x-windows rpm packages out there
> > that has an automatic installation process that
> > put an icon of the installing software on the
> > desktop, and also on the menu bar menu
> > (e.g on the applications menu, and the
> > right click menu of gnome)
> > Its like those you get from the "Installshield"
> > setup program for Windows95.
>
> The Debian distribution has a very, very nice mechanism for updating the
> system menu when software is installed using their dpkg system.  This on
> top of the fact that dpkg itself is, imo, the best packaging system out
> there makes me really wish that dselect didn't suck so mightily.  Just
> throw alittle GTK sugar on top of dpkg and you've got what you're asking
> for.  Havoc, how's that going?
>
> > I find it clumsy to have to use command prompt
> > to call the x-window program everytime, or have
> > to do the settings manually.
>
> You and me both, brother.
>
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> Todd Graham Lewis                        Postmaster, MindSpring Enterprises
> tlewis@mindspring.net                                (800) 719-4664, x22804
>
> "A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood."          -- George S. Patton
>
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