Re: [Usability] any menu editor suggestions?

[Corey Burger <corey burger gmail com>]

There is already something being worked on by somebody in Ubuntu. See:

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=21390

Basically something very similar to what is happening here.

Corey

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 23:09:13 +0100, Martin Ejdestig
<mejde dtek chalmers se> wrote:
> 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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