On Wednesday 04 January 2012 13:16:42 Scott Ferguson wrote: > On Squeeze I'd like to add a second instance of the Application Launcher > Menu that just consists of entries from a subdirectory on the default > Application Launcher Menu. > > The standard Application Launcher Menu is not set to Kickoff Menu Style. > > 1. Unlock Widgets > 2. Navigate the default Application Launcher Menu to the Internet > directory, and then to the custom directory below it called "Remote". > 3. Right-click on the "Remote" entry and select "Add to Panel" from the > drop-down menu. > A new instance of an Application Launcher Menu then appears on the Panel. > > All good so far - and the second instance of the Application Launcher > Menu has the icon from the "Remote" directory, and is not in Kickoff > Menu Style. > > Problem A - apart from the icon and location, the second Application > Launcher Menu is identical to the first - instead of just being the > subdirectory of Internet.[*1] > > Problem B - editing the second Application Launcher Menu results in > changes to both menus... I want to keep the original, full, Application > Launcher Menu *and* have a different, second, Application Launcher Menu > that displays a subset of the first menu. > > > I've tried other launchers - but couldn't work out how to add them to > the menu, and they didn't have the functionality or the layout I wanted. > > All that's desired is a simple laucher consisting of a single menu with > half a dozen entries for various remote sessions (vpn, ssh, rdp, vnc etc). > > Adding those entries to the Panel is not an option as the Panel is > already filled with the most commonly used Applications. > > I don't want things on the "desktop" - it's something I expect to see > only briefly when starting the first application in an Activity. >
I think you can just add a folder view to the panel, pointing to a folder containing links to those sessions. If you are looking for a second menu containing an entire subdirectory of the main menu, you can do that with lancelot by dragging the subdirectory to the panel from lancelot, and selecting shelf. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201201041341.39419.
