Re: [Usability]Right-click menu for panel launcher item

["Hasbullah Bin Pit (sebol)" <sebol ikhlas com>]

On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Mikael G Claesson wrote:

> Hey.
> 
> I know you're in the middle of getting Gnome 2 out the door, but I have a
> feature I would like to see added to the panel launcher items. I don't
> mind at all doing it myself. I've been wanting to be involved in the Gnome
> project for some time and this might be a good way. As far as I can
> understand, what I'm proposing shouldn't require any API changes. In any
> case it would be a fun project for me, and if it never makes in into the
> offical Gnome releases that's fine.

if i'm not mistaken, rightclick on desktop is handled by nautilus.

> Phew.. alright. I want to be able to add additional programs to a launch
> item that would be shown in the right-click menu. Basically it would be
> possible to right click on the launcher and above all the other stuff
> (Properties, Remove from panel, etc...) there would be a number of menu
> options that launches some user specified programs.

for people who are used to olvwm, wmaker, blackbox, many more,
these ppl are used to launch prg from right_click_at_any_desktop.

> This would allow me to have a single terminal launcher in the panel, and
> left-clicking it would bring up the standard local terminal. But
> right-clicking it would bring up all these other options. SSH connections
> to various university servers for instance. That would be sweet. Ofcourse
> the properties GUI would have to be updated to allow for the configuration
> of these additional program launches (I'm running out of terms).

good idea but i think the desktop context menu has these 
(priority from high to low)
 - launch terminal
 - "run"
 - panel menu


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