GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 130733
Quickstart menu entries
Last modified: 2009-12-20 17:02:25 UTC
Okay, so the JDS panel had a feature whereby you could add menu entries to the top of the toplevel menu. ie. Web Browser IRC Client ============ Applications > Run Application ============= ..... These could be added by going to the quick-start:/// URI. My thoughts - o I quite like this functionality o I'm not pushed with yet another URI o Menu system is already fucked, do we want to fuck it some more? o Should we wait until the new menu system, and hopefully we could do it cleverly? o This could just as easily by favorites:/// URI Discuss ;) [bug guys, sorry if there's already an open bug about this]
> o Should we wait until the new menu system, and hopefully we could > do it cleverly? Yes. Anyway: I'm not sure we should rush before the feature freeze to add this because we have to think about it. So I don't think it's good for 2.6. And hopefully, we'll have the new menu system for 2.8. So, right now, my advice is "wait & see".
Sounds a fair assessment to me.
Who is going to make this new menu system happen? :/ [Updating some keywords, BTW- indicating that it is 2.7.]
Think there's separate projects both in Red Hat [jrb?] and Sun [erwann?] to try and do something about it, but i'd say it's less likely it'll get into 2.6 at this stage.
I'd like to see this get integrated into the new menu in bug 161613
I'm not fond of having Applications as a submenu here (see bug #98883). Ross Burton was working on something to determine the most used applications and create an applet to launch them.
Oh, yes I agree about applications in a submenu. I was looking at the part that just has standard launchers for quickstart items, maybe this bug is just about adding the .desktop file to the Application menu category and I'm talking about the ability to add "preferred applications" launchers to the menu. [Applications] - Accesories - .... -------------- Web Browser [Epiphany] Email [Evolution] Sorry about the confusion, perhaps I should have a separate bug for this.
I have modified gnome-panel to add a new start menu, which resembles the windows start menu. You can see the screenshots at http://www.flickr.com/photos/31611994@N05/2965022895/in/set-72157608249326794/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/31611994@N05/2965022899/in/set-72157608249326794/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/31611994@N05/2965022901/in/set-72157608249326794/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/31611994@N05/2965022903/in/set-72157608249326794/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/31611994@N05/2965022905/in/set-72157608249326794/ It is in fact a GtkWindow widget, with a positioning function ported from GtkMenu. And we can add what we want to this Start menu. Main bugs includes: 1. Most recently used applications and favorite applications are to complete.. I trace d Suse main menu but as it used GtkRecentManager to retrieve the applications usage information, I just could not find where it log the usage of any applications by GtkRecentManager. 2. I find GtkToolButton and GtkkMenuToolButton fit more than GtkImage MenuItem in the startmenu . I used GtkImageMenuItem, but you have to click once to select a menu item, before you can clicke it once more to launch an application. By the way, I want to find a free ftp site to host my newly created RPMs and sources for both CentOS5.2 and Fedora9, do you have any good ideas?
This would basically be covered by gnome-shell.
WONTFIX. Similar: Bug 464751 about listing recently used applications which has a patch.