Re: [Usability] any menu editor suggestions?



Catching up on mail... 

On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 20:31 +0100, Christian Neumair wrote:
> Of course, feel free to do so. I'd appreciate it :). Note that there is
> not yet any bugzilla component for gnome-menu-editor, so you'd have to
> create a new one. It would really be nice if you could handle that.
> I'll most likely import gnome-menu-editor into GNOME CVS today.
> 
> I'd still like to know whether this is meant to be turned into a
> full-fledged menu editor, which would allow adding application launchers
> and other nifty things, or whether it should provide only very basic
> functionality. I already received some private mail with proposals on
> more sophisticated functions, we have to be sure on how this app should
> look when it has reached 1.0 first, though.

I assume you are talking about my mail? :) Mmmm.. "sophisticated
functions"... well...

1. Displaying an icon to the left of the name (in the same column).

You didn't seem to like this with the rationale that it brought to much
clutter? I don't know, personally I think icons helps users to associate
things. (Else, why do we have icons in the Applications menu at all?)

I'm ready to cook up a patch if you give it a go (but I bet someone will
beat me to it since it's quite simple to do (thanks to the elegant
libmenu) and I STILL haven't gotten my internet connection installed
since I moved).

2. My second concern is third party apps a user downloads from the net
that can be run from whichever directory it is extracted to (which is,
imho, how apps like these should work; just download an archive, extract
it somewhere, open folder, click icon). How do you get that application
to show up in the menu?

My initial proposal was to make it possible to drop executbles/desktop
files in the window and remove the entry when the executable is removed.

You weren't to fond of this idea either, and I think I agree now. Not
for the same reason though. (I think your argument went something like:
the user can install an app => the user is experienced enough to create
her own .desktop file and place it in the right dir. I don't think you
have to be very experienced (well, not so experienced that you know
about .desktop files anyway) to download an archive, extract it and
click an icon.)

I think this can be solved nicely by having the app copy a desktop file
to .local/share/applications/ the first time it is started... right? If
it doesn't... well, it's a bug in the app. :)


Martin
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