Opinions welcome: Restructuring the system menus
Gerd Hoffmann
kraxel at redhat.com
Mon Dec 17 09:50:17 UTC 2007
Stewart Adam wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just a note before I start, I'm talking mostly about Gnome but this may
> apply to KDE or XFCE users.
>
> I know alacarte is there for a reason, but I was wondering if others
> agree the system menus could use some restructuring. The generic names
> like 'Movie Player' are great because you can search for programs by
> function but what when 2+ desktop environments are installed? Which
> 'File Brower' am I opening - XFCE, Gnome or KDE's?
SuSE has a quite neat scheme for that. In KDE at least, dunno about
gnome / others, I'm a KDE fanboy ;)
Menu structure is like this:
-> applications
-> internet
-> email <- GenericName
-> kmail <- Name
-> thunderburd <- Name
The special trick now is that it doesn't show menus with only one entry.
If you had only one email client installed, the "email" entry changed
from a submenu to a button which started the one installed mailer directly.
cheers,
Gerd
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