Re: Several comments on panel, nautilus and evolution

[George <jirka 5z com>]

On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 10:59:19PM +0200, Gérard Milmeister wrote:
> Concerning the applications menu on the panel.
> KDE has a small programm call kappfinder. This looks
> for known applications already installed on the system
> and integrates them into the app menu.
> 
> There would also be a need for GNOME compliant icons for non-GNOME
> applications.

GNOME has a more dynamic system.  It has the TryExec field where it will
look for a program in path at the time it's trying to load the icon.  Then it
just will not show the icon if that command doesn't exist.  This makes the
process completely transparent to the user.

George

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