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On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 6:18 AM, Martin Herrman<martin@×××××××.nl> wrote: |
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> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Mark Knecht<markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Yep. And so small I built it by the time your response came back and |
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>> am answering your message from within it. Granted, black screen and |
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>> the menus don't see any of the apps I have installed, so that's the |
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>> same old problem. Isn't there some app for automatically picking up |
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>> apps on putting the menu together auto-magically? |
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>> Cheers, |
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>> Mark |
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> "The Xfce 4 Appfinder is part of the Xfce 4 Desktop Environment and |
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> features application search on the whole system. It searches for |
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> .desktop files based on the freedesktop spec and makes an index of the |
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> found apps." |
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> Source: xfce website: |
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> http://www.xfce.org/documentation/4.2/manuals/xfce4-appfinder |
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> Does Gentoo use these .desktop files? |
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OK - I emerged XFCE4 and am writing this message from there. It finds |
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all my apps and the menues seem to be arranged reasonably so I suspect |
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that it might work nicely over time. I haven't had time yet to check |
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any real performance issues - xruns using Jack, or other things that |
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might be important to me, but it seems like a reasonable little setup |
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and it feels responsive starting up. |
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One thing I'm not finding is it doesn't seem to allow a multi-file |
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drag on my desktop to change icon positions. That a minor |
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disappointment. Certainly not a big deal for my life, but I wonder how |
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you mive 20 files created by some audio program to a new folder using |
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the GUI? |
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I thought I was running 1600x1200 in Gnome but XFCE is only offering |
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as high as 1280x1024. I'll check that later and I'm probably |
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incorrect. |
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In general it might be a replacement for Gnome. Feels good. If I had |
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to complain about something it might be that the default setup doesn't |
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seem very sexy. XFCE might benefit from some marketing input. I'll |
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have to spend some time learning how I might improve things a bit. |
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Thanks, |
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Mark |
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