I think the other person was asking how to remove Open Terminal in FC4.
-Toshio
And installing an rpm isn't my favorite way of dealing with this.
Some users may never use a terminal at all, and they wouldn't need it.
Some users may want "Open Terminal" to use gnome-terminal. Other
people like rxvt, xterm, uxterm or konsole. This sort of thing should
be possible to configure on a per-user basis. This is even ~more~ true
in a managed environment where you might want, say, to have a 'kiosk'
user who has limited capabilities and an 'admin' user who can use the
GUI to configure the system. The sysadmin should be able to turn off
user configurability on a per-account basis, but may want some users
that are different from others.
Right now I've installed a program (statemenu) that grabs a
middle-button click on the desktop: I've got one button that opens a
local terminal, and three submenus for three different categories of
remote machines that I log into. With statemenu, I can edit a simple
xml file and get it the way I want in a few minutes. If it were up to
me, I'd rather put those options at the top of the menu I get when I
right-click on the background. (Perhaps this won't bother me when if
and when my muscle memory adjusts...)
There are tough questions here... I ~never~ use anything on the
right-click menu other than "Open Terminal"; I'd be happy to remove all
of the items there, but that's probably bad for the ecology of the
Desktop, because that would trash the Nautilus UI, which I (or a
friend) might just want to use someday. Putting my stuff on the middle
button is probably the best answer, because I get my bit of "namespace"
I can do what I want with, and Nautilus gets one too. I've even got
the left button to do something else with.
People who want to create a kiosk mode, on the other hand, need
complete control of the right-click menu.
There's a lot of thought in the RH/Fedora desktop about superficial
kinds of customization (visual themes, backgrounds -- it's easy to
change the desktop background from the right-click menu, for example)
but you're in bad shape if you want to change behavior. I couldn't care
less about changing how focus works: I switch all the time between mac
and windows, linux and solaris, so my brain adjusts to whatever I
get: however, it ought to be easy to add a new menu to the panel and
edit it with either a text configuration file, a graphical tool or both.
The basic idea here is that there ought to be part of the UI that's
controlled by the 'OS' and part that's controlled by the user. The
'hat' button is a good answer to the problem of creating new entries
when you install an application by rpm -- but a panel applet that lets
me create custom menus would obiviate the need to install or write
software to do really simple things.
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