Am Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:52:48 -0600 schrieb Matthew <[email protected]>:
> On 8/13/2010 12:05 PM, Christopher Roy Bratusek wrote: > > (now there I'm already in the mood: the one more message (TM)) > > > > Hi dear fellows, > > > > I've also thought about the apps-menu. I noticed that KDE-Applications > > don't show up. > > That's pretty easy to fix. But there's a question in my mind about that: > > shouldn't > > there be more sub-menus? I mean there aren't any icons in there and thus it > > may not > > be that usable then there are too many entries in the same level. > > > > Next is the a-zA-Z issue. I forgot which librep-func was buggy so that > > Matthew > > couldn't do the sorting properly. So we ever fix the issue (better) or make > > all a-z > > A-Z for the first letter (not so good though). > > > > At last: not all apps show up in the correct sub-menu. VBox for example > > shows up in > > Games rather than in System or Utils (I believe Utils is a better name than > > Utility). > > We should check other apps to and change accordingly. > > > > So if you have some comments to share, or suggestions for new sub-menus > > that can be > > done, place a message :D > > > > Regards, > > Chris > > > > Hi All, > > Regarding the a-z/A-Z issue, It is the sort function, used with > 'string<, that will put upper-case letters before lower-case letters. I > haven't looked into this in a while, so not sure if there is a better > way to sort them, one option was to make all the entries upper-case, but > that would negatively effect certain applications that should be > lower-case. Guile has 'string-ci<, which is case-insensitive, i'm not > sure if rep has something similar., if not, maybe we can add it in. > > Regarding sub-menus, I think this is a great idea, we could better take > advantage of the varying Categories in the .desktop files and it would > be easier to read and find what you're looking for. I also believe that it's better. > Icons can be added to the menus fairly easily, i almost had this working > a while back, but was having trouble with the icon-factory in rep-gtk, > adding specific icons, however, is fairly trivial, though themes etc > wouldn't effect them in that case. > > What are the thoughts regarding tool-tips in the apps-menu? Generally you can add both features, but both un/settable and off by default. Except that there's no limitation. You know we're talking Sawfish :) > I will try to work on some of these things in the coming weeks. Sounds good. Regards, Chris > Cheers, > Matthew > >
