There is already something being worked on by somebody in Ubuntu. See: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=21390
Basically something very similar to what is happening here. Corey On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 23:09:13 +0100, Martin Ejdestig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Catching up on mail... > > On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 20:31 +0100, Christian Neumair wrote: > > Of course, feel free to do so. I'd appreciate it :). Note that there is > > not yet any bugzilla component for gnome-menu-editor, so you'd have to > > create a new one. It would really be nice if you could handle that. > > I'll most likely import gnome-menu-editor into GNOME CVS today. > > > > I'd still like to know whether this is meant to be turned into a > > full-fledged menu editor, which would allow adding application launchers > > and other nifty things, or whether it should provide only very basic > > functionality. I already received some private mail with proposals on > > more sophisticated functions, we have to be sure on how this app should > > look when it has reached 1.0 first, though. > > I assume you are talking about my mail? :) Mmmm.. "sophisticated > functions"... well... > > 1. Displaying an icon to the left of the name (in the same column). > > You didn't seem to like this with the rationale that it brought to much > clutter? I don't know, personally I think icons helps users to associate > things. (Else, why do we have icons in the Applications menu at all?) > > I'm ready to cook up a patch if you give it a go (but I bet someone will > beat me to it since it's quite simple to do (thanks to the elegant > libmenu) and I STILL haven't gotten my internet connection installed > since I moved). > > 2. My second concern is third party apps a user downloads from the net > that can be run from whichever directory it is extracted to (which is, > imho, how apps like these should work; just download an archive, extract > it somewhere, open folder, click icon). How do you get that application > to show up in the menu? > > My initial proposal was to make it possible to drop executbles/desktop > files in the window and remove the entry when the executable is removed. > > You weren't to fond of this idea either, and I think I agree now. Not > for the same reason though. (I think your argument went something like: > the user can install an app => the user is experienced enough to create > her own .desktop file and place it in the right dir. I don't think you > have to be very experienced (well, not so experienced that you know > about .desktop files anyway) to download an archive, extract it and > click an icon.) > > I think this can be solved nicely by having the app copy a desktop file > to .local/share/applications/ the first time it is started... right? If > it doesn't... well, it's a bug in the app. :) > > Martin > -- > http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~mejde > > _______________________________________________ > Usability mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability > _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
