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On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 7:09 AM, The Doctor<drwho@××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>> QUESTION: Is there something small, fast but also easy to use in |
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>> terms of the environment automatically creating menus when apps are |
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>> added or removed with emerge? |
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> I know you mentioned not really wanting to run one of the /*box/ window |
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> managers because you'd run one before, but something just came to mind. |
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> I ran Openbox for a few years because it fit just the criteria that you |
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> described, and returning to their website I found a page that describes |
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> how to integrate it with Gnome, so you could still use the menus without |
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> having to hand-edit the menu config file. |
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Good to know. thanks! |
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It's not that I don't want to run one of the /*box/ products. More |
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that I just want a *reasonable* amount of menu management as I install |
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and uninstall apps. |
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> I might try that later, actually. |
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> You might also want to look into XFCE to see if it'll work the way you |
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> want it to. I've played with it a little on my media machine but don't |
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> have a whole lot to say about it right now. |
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XFCE seems pretty nice. It has a light feel, menus are handled, at |
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least in the sense of the apps I had installed and were showing up in |
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Gnome menus are there in XFCE. I don't like that it doesn't, at least |
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out of the box on my computer, support multiple file drag & drop |
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actions, but maybe it supports that sort of thing through cut & paste. |
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Not sure. (Just thought of that one.) |
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I did build EWM (E16 I think) this morning. It's quite interesting, in |
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the sense that there are multiple desktops and things. Very |
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minimalistic. Seems to have a large list of configurations I can do. |
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The problem as an uninformed new user is I have no clue how to even |
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start an app like Firefox! That one will take a bit of study. |
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Anyway, I appreciate your ideas and inputs. I'll look at openbox this afternoon. |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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