On 13 Aug 2008, at 13:26, Ghee Teo wrote:

>
>  You know that once all the additional apps that are currently in  
> spec-files-other
> went into nevada WOS, the menu layout between Nevada and OpenSolaris  
> will
> be so far apart beyond recognition. That is the consequence of using  
> Nevada as
> a dumping portal :(. While this may be not a problem for non-GUI  
> app, but for
> applications that delivers a .desktop file, that is what going to  
> happen!

That's why I've been asking (internally) if we could devise a way to  
ensure that all apps that aren't listed in the Nevada UI spec have the  
"NoDisplay=True" line added to their .desktop file-- preferably  
automatically at build or install time, since that line would need to  
be absent when downloaded and installed from an OpenSolaris repository.

That way, if you wanted to add such an app to your Nevada Applications  
menu, it would just be a checkbox away in the menu editor.  (Or you  
could just run it from the command line anyway.)

Most other people I've mentioned it to seem to think it would be great  
to have 500* different applications on their Nevada menu by default,  
though, so maybe I'm fighting a losing battle...

Cheeri,
Calum.

* Ok, slight exaggeration... but if we don't draw the line somewhere  
and the repositories grow as quickly as we'd like, then 500 could be a  
conservative estimate in a year or two...

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