On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:28:26 +0100 Al Johnson <openm...@mazikeen.demon.co.uk> said:
> On Thursday 24 September 2009, arne anka wrote: > > > I'm pretty sure Illume does not have support for categories or the > > > ability to hide apps (especially not through a menu). > > > > > > Workarounds: > > > If you delete the .desktop file from /usr/share/applications/, it > > > won't be displayed. > > > If your .desktop file doesn't contain Type=Application, I don't think > > > it'll be displayed. > > > > i remember distinctly a dialog popping up first time with a listing of > > apps and a checkbox for every app, to enable it. > > can't get to that dialog again. > > additionally: i want to add my very own apps to the launcher -- and that > > as _normal_ user. > > since linux is a _multiuser_ operating system with separation of rights, > > it's unreasonable to expect _normal_ users to create/modify _global_ files > > (which the .desktop files in /usr/share/applications/ are). > > I think that selection dialog is for the enlightenment menu or something. It > has no effect on what apps appear on the illume launcher as far as I can > tell. The illume launcher is rather lacking in functionality as you have > found. I'm sure Raster will gladly accept patches to improve the situation, > but afaik nobody has written any. launcher was basic to get the job done, and it id. it hasn't been touched since though. :) i'm slowly gettign around to splitting illume up into policy (window layout) vs shelf (the top bar), vkbd and launcher and other bits. u'll see illume2 in svn as a module name, but its really more of a testbed for me cleaning up the code and "doing it right". -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
