Just a quick note re the changes to doing menus freedesktop style over the last year.
I often prefer having a custom menu for a couple of reasons. * Easy access. Usual automatically generated menus are populated with hundreds of slots I never use anyway, so they just get in the way. * Custom slots - e.g. a menu item which directly runs a script to fire up a particular pdf book or movie etc. The favourite applications menu partially resolves the first point, but it still doesn't let you have any structure and is not suited to more than 5-6 items. This is more than what a favourite applications menu should be anyway. What I am currently doing is blowing away the current applications menu with my own 'freedesktop' configured menu. I also have alot of custom .desktop files and .desktop-directory files to suit the custom menu and to also support the ability to switch my system language from english to korean and back and have the menu fully expressed in the proper language. Problem is, it has a couple of drawbacks. * Moving to a different machine and just copying across all the .desktop files results in a very broken menu as half of what is in there is not installed on that particular machine. * It's good to have that original 'applications' menu lying around as it is a window to everything on the system - and sometimes its easy to find and access things with that. I remember e16 used to populate menus based on whether it could find a menu slot's command on the system. That was great when transferring your menu from one machine to another - dunno that it would really work with custom scripts though. Another way that would make this convenient would be to have an extra menu that we could make through e's module (the one you use for adding to startup applications or favourites). In this case, create a custom applications menu. If it can be configured to look in various locations for .desktop, .desktop-directory and menu files, then you could drag-drop items to create your custom menu very quickly and conveniently without needing to modify your pool of resources (.desktop files). Is there any plan for this sort of functionality? If not, is it something that the developer's crew wouldn't mind seeing implemented? (thinking of pitching in when i get some free time from programming at work) Cheers, Daniel. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
