Hi, I have been watching this quite a while and I think I found an usable but arduous solution. A mechanism is needed to be developed, recognizing whenever there are 2 or more menuitems with the same Generic name (Terminal) and in that case use DE name (Xfce Terminal).
Miro Hrončok Jabber: [email protected] Telefon: +420777974800 2011/6/23 Martin Sourada <[email protected]>: > On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:48:33 +0200 > Christoph Wickert wrote: > >> Do you really think it is great from a user's POV to have >> >> KDE Address book >> KDE Archive Manager >> KDE Calculator >> KDE File Manager >> KDE Terminal >> GNOME Address book >> GNOME Archive Manager >> GNOME Calculator >> GNOME File Manager >> GNOME Terminal >> LXDE Address book >> LXDE Archive Manager >> LXDE Calculator >> LXDE File Manager >> LXDE Terminal >> Xfce Address book >> Xfce Archive Manager >> Xfce Calculator >> Xfce File Manager >> Xfce Terminal >> > Well, the best solution is to have "<Name> <Generic Name>" or something > like that, sans the problem cases where generic name is part of name. > > It's bad to have: > Mail Client > Mail Client > Web Browser > Web Browser > Terminal > Terminal > Terminal > Archive Manager > Archive Manager > ... > > But IMHO it's good to have: > Claws Mail Client > Thunderbird Mail Client > Midori Web Browser > Firefox Web Browser > Gnome Terminal Emulator > XFCE Terminal Emulator > XTerm Terminal Emulator > Ark Archive Manager > Xarchiver Archive Manager > ... > > 1. There are people who wish to use different terminal than desktop > default (it's not "just running xterm in a window with tabs" and > it's certainly not running bash everywhere. There are people who use > different shells) > 2. There are multi-user installations where one user uses KDE, another > GNOME and yet another XFCE > > How are you going to show both of them sensible menu entry for terminal? > ShowOnlyIn will block the first use case, leaving Terminal will result > in menu with two or more Terminals in there... > > Cheers, > Martin > > _______________________________________________ > xfce mailing list > [email protected] > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce > _______________________________________________ xfce mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce
