Calum Benson wrote: > 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... > Count me in for people who don't want the menu to be cluttered.
-Sanjay > 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... > >
