On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 03:38:38PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Sorry for my ignorance, but what is a "launch bar"? Is it Xfce's thing > at the bottom of the desktop that shows menus and the like? What's so > special about it?
XFCE calls it the "Mini Command Line". KDE calls it something else which
I am most likely misremembering as "Launch Bar". It is not the panel at the
bottom, it is a plugin for the panel which allows the user to enter a command
as if it were on the CLI and have it executed. Neither the XFCE or KDE
versions have tab compilation and only the KDE version has a history.
Where it comes in handy is when I want to start something that I know the
name of and that name isn't ungodly. For example, xchat. I've never made an
icon, menu item or other such thing to start xchat. I put get a cursor in the
MCL type "xchat" and return and up it comes. gaim, same thing. openoffice,
same thing. In fact the only things in the panel as launch buttons are:
My terminal: I never learned the command line for the GNOME Terminal and
rxvt's command line which I have memorized is too long to type out every time.
(rxvt -bg black -fg white -cr green -sl 1500)
XFFM/Nautilus/Konqueror - Yes, one icon for each as it is a small menu. Never
learned exactly what was needed for the first two and I am a cronic misspeller
of the last one.
Firefox: Because for some reason Debian's command line for it is
mozilla-firefox which is too long for casual use.
Thunderbird: same as above, mozilla-thunderbird? Guh.
Azureus: Dunno why that's an icon, really. Hmmm, should remove that.
Anyway the MCL pretty much takes care of anything else that I need at a
moments notice without the need of opening up a terminal first.
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