[242] in Athena User Interface
Re: dash replacement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Thompson)
Wed Jun 28 15:33:19 2000
Message-Id: <200006281933.PAA14726@rat-thing.mit.edu>
To: Mike Whitson <mwhitson@MIT.EDU>
cc: aui@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "28 Jun 2000 15:22:29 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 15:33:15 -0400
From: Brad Thompson <yak@MIT.EDU>
> I'm not actually on this list, but I heard that there was some
> discussion of a GNOME dash replacement. If you haven't already, you
> might want to take a look at the "foobar" (aka "menu panel"), which is
> a part of gnome-panel that was introduced in gnome-core 1.2 or
> thereabouts. When I saw it, the first thing I said to myself was,
> "Hey, look, it's GNOME dash!"
>
> I'm told that currently, most of the menu items are hardcoded.
> However, I'm also told that it shouldn't be too hard to make
> configurable, and that patches to do so probably wouldn't be frowned
> upon.
I suppose this would be the time to tell everyone that I kicked out a
hacked gmenu that works with the locker model we have been talking about.
It is currently installed for Linux, and will soon be installed for
Solaris. If you want to use it, replace your gnome menu with a Favorites
menu and put the "menugrovel" program in your non-seesion-managed
startup programs. The only locker that currently has gnome menus in
it is the "internet" locker. To give a locker a gnome menu, run "mkdir
/mit/LOCKER/apps", and either stuff it with .desktop files or use gmenu
to do it for you.
yak
