Re: New default apps-menu?

[Christopher Roy Bratusek <zanghar freenet de>]

Am Dienstag, den 03.03.2009, 00:34 +0100 schrieb Fernando:
> Hello.
> I think that there has been some discussion about tweaking a bit the
> default configuration for sawfish.
> I have some suggestions regarding the apps-menu.
> 
> The current one looks like this (lisp/wm/menus.jl)
> 
> ----
> 
>   (defvar apps-menu
>     `(("xterm" (system "xterm &"))
>       ("Emacs" (system "emacs &"))
>       ("Netscape" (system "netscape &"))
>       ("The GIMP" (system "gimp &"))
>       ("XFIG" (system "xfig &"))
>       ("GV" (system "gv &"))
>       ("xcalc" (system "xcalc &"))))
> 
> -----
> 
> Most of the programs are not very useful for most of the people.
> My suggestion is to turn it into something similar to this:
> 
> ------
> 
>   (defvar apps-menu
>     `(("_Terminal" (xterm))
>       ("_Web Browser" (system "$BROWSER &"))
>       ("_File Browser" (system "xdg-open ~ &"))
>       ("_Emacs" (system "emacs &"))
>       ("The _GIMP" (system "gimp &"))
>       ("_Soundmixer" (xterm "alsamixer"))
>       ("x_calc" (system "xcalc &"))))
> 
> -----
> 
> What do you think? Any ideas? Does the $BROWSER thing do the trick in
> your computers?

Nope. www-browser works (and is an alternative, should therefore work on
any distro). 

> Perhaps the ideal thing would be to have an entry in sawfish-ui,
> somehow, to make it be easily customizable.
> 

That would be the best. Patch? ;)

> PS: btw... the usage of the "selfdefined xterm" function in my example
> menu seems to be wrong. How was the generic xterm function
> implemented? is it a need to require "sawfish.wm.commands.xterm" to
> load it?

yes, you need to load sawfish.wm.commands.xterm it should be fine then.

> --
> Fernando