[haiku-development] Re: Submenu in Applications menu
- From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:28:42 +0200
On 2009-08-13 at 17:52:11 [+0200], Jonas Sundström <jonas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx> wrote:
> ...
> > So all apps I've lying around on my disk somewhere
> > would clutter my menues.
> > Sounds like a not-so-brilliant idea to me.
>
> Are all those apps likely to be categorized?
Maybe I'm a bit slow, but I figured some default category would come from
the app developer or package builder. If that is not the case and I have to
assign a category manually (how anyway? -- editing the attribute in
Tracker?), I fail to see the advantage over creating a symlink. In fact a
symlink has the advantage that I can give the menu item a different name
than the app.
> Off the top of my head:
>
> - un-categorize the ones you don't want to be shown
>
> (have a second attribute exist to suppress the entry? nah..)
>
> - limit it to /boot
At least under BeOS my download directory -- where I usually unzipped apps
for testing -- used to be in ~.
> - a Deskbar option to not show the categorized app
> submenus and just use your own folders, symlinks and
> queries.
>
> I think Haiku's default behaviour should favor people
> who would want to find most of their applications
> (not just any utility) in the menu, and that developers
> might be the special case here. Which of course has to
> be accomodated too.
This all becomes even more interesting when we'll have a package installer.
I guess apps installed this way should automatically get a application menu
entry, while those I just try out shouldn't.
CU, Ingo
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