> > On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 02:22 +0100, Denis Leroy wrote: >> This is an idea I've had about a year ago and gave some thought on and >> off since then, but Richard Hughes has mentioned a similar idea several >> times on this list as well. >> >> The idea is to show the (large number of) applications available to >> Fedora users through yum, but instead of a linear list displayed in >> pirut for example, show them directly in the main menu: that way the >> available apps are already categorized in a familiar way, and you can >> see the application icons and short descriptions through the menu >> tooltip. > > This just sounds like an awesome idea to me. I wonder how tightly could > that be integrated into Gnome and the desktop file specification. It > would be kind of elegant if the .desktop file contained a boolean > stating if the application is installed. If the app isn't installed, there would be no .desktop. No? > Then the gnome menu would contain something that would resemble the > thing that expands personalized menus in Windows except for that it > would unhide the uninstalled applications. And this could be turned off, > of course :) In KDE4, the Search capability of the menu could be enough > for user not to get lost in not-installed applications. > > -- > Lubomir Kundrak (Red Hat Security Response Team) > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > -- novus ordo absurdum -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
