On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 7:09 AM, The Doctor<dr...@virtadpt.net> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Mark Knecht wrote: > >> QUESTION: Is there something small, fast but also easy to use in >> terms of the environment automatically creating menus when apps are >> added or removed with emerge? > > I know you mentioned not really wanting to run one of the /*box/ window > managers because you'd run one before, but something just came to mind. > I ran Openbox for a few years because it fit just the criteria that you > described, and returning to their website I found a page that describes > how to integrate it with Gnome, so you could still use the menus without > having to hand-edit the menu config file.
Good to know. thanks! It's not that I don't want to run one of the /*box/ products. More that I just want a *reasonable* amount of menu management as I install and uninstall apps. > > I might try that later, actually. > > You might also want to look into XFCE to see if it'll work the way you > want it to. I've played with it a little on my media machine but don't > have a whole lot to say about it right now. XFCE seems pretty nice. It has a light feel, menus are handled, at least in the sense of the apps I had installed and were showing up in Gnome menus are there in XFCE. I don't like that it doesn't, at least out of the box on my computer, support multiple file drag & drop actions, but maybe it supports that sort of thing through cut & paste. Not sure. (Just thought of that one.) I did build EWM (E16 I think) this morning. It's quite interesting, in the sense that there are multiple desktops and things. Very minimalistic. Seems to have a large list of configurations I can do. The problem as an uninformed new user is I have no clue how to even start an app like Firefox! That one will take a bit of study. Anyway, I appreciate your ideas and inputs. I'll look at openbox this afternoon. Cheers, Mark > > - -- > > The Doctor [412/724/301/703] > > PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD89 3BD8 FF2B 807B 17C1 > WWW: http://drwho.virtadpt.net/ > > "Take back, take back, take back the dancefloor!" > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAko6SpEACgkQO9j/K4B7F8ETEQCg0fDP+qQ908fh/ziAazuELOlC > 7uQAoIY7L0XaaXJDhXrskpIRoa/iKopA > =Hr5c > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >
