Hello, Are there many small packages like xpenguins and xdesktopwaves? Those have no menu entry (*), but I don't think they should have (correct me if I'm wrong) because they have no interface and they are useless.
One solution for that I've thought of is to create a «Launcher» for them, and application that has a menu entry and that allows you to start them. Then the packages would be changed to depend of the launcher (or at least recommend it). That why I do the initial question, if there aren't many of this applications (for ex., less than 10) then it has no sense to do this. If there are many and you agree with this solution, if nobody else wants to do it I could try to do it this summer, if someone mentors me with the creation of the program (I'd use Python, but I don't know much about it yet) and packaging it. I see two possible approaches, one would be to have the information about the applications hard-coded and check if it's installed, this one isn't very good. The other one is to have a folder where all applications using it place a file telling that they exist and what parameters they accept, then have the application read the files there and list those programs. Now that I've written all this crap I don't think this will matter anybody, but well... :P [*] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xpenguins/+bug/60305, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xdesktopwaves/+bug/60306 -- Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals (RainCT) Linux User #438657. Ubuntu User #11680. Eurion Networks, http://eurion.net. SimpleMyAdmin, http://simplemyadmin.sf.net -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
