Am Freitag, den 25.03.2005, 23:09 +0100 schrieb Martin Ejdestig: > 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.
Note that things changed meanwhile: I've made pretty good progress at improving gnome-menu-editor. It displays application and menu icons, one can add menus and applications and copy apps between various menus. I've put many hours of work into this and it was a lot of fun :). > 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?) Right, as I stated above, this is supported now. > 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? Hrm gnome-menu-editor now allows to drag binaries and scripts to the application section (if only one menu is selected). A dialog pops up with name and executable pre-filled, where the name is the basepath of the exec path. Works and feels neat, actually :). > 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. So you think it is a good idea to not display an entry whenever the binary specified by the "Exec" field is not available? Doesn't sound very practicable, really. > 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. :) People who don't use packaging systems to install apps have been and are still on their own. I really recommend you to check out gnome-menu-editor and gnome-menus HEAD, grab both of the gnome-menus patches mentioned in README (it's a pitty you still need them) and give it a try. -- Christian Neumair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
