Re: menu fixes

[Brennan W Stehling <brennan offwhite net>]

Yes, I was told something similar was going on.  I was glad to hear it.

Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin
projects: www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com

fortune:
"To vacillate or not to vacillate, that is the question ... or is it?"

On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, bighead wrote:

> I think its already implemented.
> 
> 
> On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Brennan W Stehling wrote:
> 
> > I have been following gnome as it has been improving and have also used
> > KDE quite a bit.  I thought up an improvement which will help both of them
> > and help new users who have never used X Windows before.
> > 
> > Basically, when I install Gnome or KDE it gives me a menu system full of
> > all kinds of applications.  Most of these I never use and I have to be
> > root in order to change this generalized menu.  It is not so bad for me,
> > but my brothers who are very new to it hate that they have so many apps to
> > choose from while they cannot easily find the ones they want.  I had to
> > install and update their menus so it would work for them.
> > 
> > I thought about this and figured it would be better to change this system
> > and allow people to update their entire menu and default the settings of a
> > newly created menu based on profiles.  Here is how it would work.
> > 
> > When applications are installed they would become registered with the
> > system.  FreeBSD has their package management system and RPM does much of
> > the same.  One problem is that when I install a new app my brothers are
> > not aware of it unlesss I tell them, and then I have to tell them exactly
> > how to edit it into their menu.  If the new app was registered with a
> > menu system a user could look through a virtual application catalog and
> > select ones to add to their menu, or to take one off their menu.
> > Checkboxes next to each application summary would indicate if they have it
> > in their menu not.
> > 
> > So when a user logs into X Windows for the first time they would be asked
> > what kind os user they happen to be: designer, programmer, business,
> > games.  Based on that it would turn on or off a series of apps and
> > structure the menu to their needs.  After they select their profile they
> > can then edit it further to add and remove any app as they like.
> > 
> > Another matter to this system would be categorization of applications.
> > Right now Netscape is placed under Applications in a very general way
> > while I want it inside the Internet folder.  I imagine a first run of this
> > system would allow for top level categories and a later version could
> > allow for sub-categories.
> > 
> > I would like to create this software myself but I have not programmed
> > anything for gnome yet.  I had some C in school but have mainly been doing
> > Perl programming for the last two years.
> > 
> > Perhaps I could act as a project coordinator for any gnome programmers who
> > like this idea.  Along the way I am pretty sure I will pick up the trade a
> > bit and can start helping along.  I have the development hardware here and
> > will give anyone an account that would like to start development.
> > 
> > The machine is...
> > 
> > PIII 550
> > 4.5 Gig Ultra Wide SCSI (Seagate)
> > 20 Gig IDE (Western Digital)
> > 64 mb ram
> > 
> > I am running FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE right now and hope to upgrade to 4.0 in
> > a month or so to include the linux threads package.
> > 
> > Anyone up for this project?
> > 
> > Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin
> > projects: www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com
> > 
> > fortune:
> > "Give me enough medals, and I'll win any war."
> > 		-- Napolean
> > 
> > 
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