On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 17:00:16 -0700 Bruce Lundquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(Bbabbled:
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(B> Greetings,
(B>
(B> I finished installing E17 from yum with the help of Didier Casse. It
(B> works great and looks tremendous. Much thanks to you Didier! I have
(B> one question though, how do I create/modify the menus? I was very used
(B> to E16 and creating menus was really easy. Now it's not so intuitive.
(B> I've looked for instructions all over the place, but haven't found them
(B> yet. Could someone explain this to me please? I'd like to also modify
(B> the "task bar" that's at the bottom of the screen. Help there would be
(B> good also.
(B
(Bthats the nice thing with e17. it all works the same way :)
(B
(Bthats also how the icons in the top-left of windows work :)
(B
(B~/.e/e/applications/all
(B
(Bis a repository of "app icons". these icons are data files that contain the
(Bimage data (as an edje file) for an icon (so it can animate and scale nicely
(Bunlike a plain png etc.), as well as app name, description, label, generic name,
(Bmultiple language versions of this, the command line to execute and more.
(Bcreating one of these is a little work... but once u have one - just drop it in
(B~/.e/e/applications/all as a file. now E knows about it.
(B
(Bnow how do u get these guys into your favorite applications menu - or the
(Blauncher bar (it's called ibar).? simple. 2 ways.
(B
(B1. drop (cp, ln -s) one of these .eapp files into ~/.e/e/applications/bar or
(B~/.e/e/applications/favorite (for the menu).
(B
(Bif you want submenus in your favorites menu.. create subdirectories and drop
(B.eapp files in there. the menu mimics the directory tree. you can determine the
(Bordering of things in the menu by listing files and dirs in a .order file in
(Beach dir. so the .order would list from first to last all items you want
(Bspecifically ordered. those files in the dir not listed in .order will be
(Bordered alphabetically after the list in .order.
(B
(Bmuch more important though and more efficient is.. you dont NEED the file there
(BAND listed in .order. you can only list it in .order and if the file is not
(Bthere, e will fall back to the same named file in the ~/.e/e/applications/all
(Bdir - so u can save copying and symlinking files around simply by listing them
(Bin .order :).
(B
(Bthe system is designed to make it trivial to install apps - just add a line to
(B.order or drop a file in. to remove the app, remove the file and/or the line in
(B.order). its intended to be very filemanager friendly for managing menus. .eapp
(Bfiles are designed to be entirely self-contained information lumps that contain
(Ball the icon image data and execution info to run something. you can make your
(Bown - there's enlightenment_eapp which is a command-line tool to add meta data
(Bto an edje file to make it able to be used as an eapp file. there is an
(Bicon_example.tar.gz shipped with e17 to show you how i created the initial small
(Bset of sample .eapp files. there are other tools in e_utils too (a ewl gui tool
(Bto modify an .eapp file). eventually we plan on providing more tools, like tools
(Bthat can import gnome and kde's application .desktop, etc. files, as well as
(Bmaybe have a large repository of shared .eapp files all e users can create,
(Bsubmit to the repository so everyone can just fetch a ready-made .eapp file for
(Btheir app. etc. etc.
(B
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