On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Jari Rahkonen <[email protected]>wrote:
> 19.01.2011 16:05, Charlie Kravetz wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 10:54:02 +0200 >> Jari Rahkonen<[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 19.01.2011 01:26, Pasi Lallinaho wrote: >>> >>>> On 01/19/2011 01:18 AM, Charlie Kravetz wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Natty only: >>>>> Think simplified now. To add a launcher to the desktop, drag it from >>>>> the menu and name it. To add a launcher to the panel, >>>>> open /usr/share/applications in Thunar, right-click the menu item you >>>>> want on the panel, left-click "Open with...", left-click create >>>>> launcher on panel. >>>>> >>>>> To be honest, I still think a lot of people need help with "Open >>>> /usr/share/applications" and finding the correct application... >>>> >>> >>> Does dragging from xfce4-appfinder work? Should be more intuitive, and >>> the Application Finder can be found in the menu. Plus this should work >>> for adding launchers to both the desktop and the panel. Doesn't work >>> with the 4.6 panel and I can't test this with 4.8 right now but I >>> remember someone writing about this on xfce4-dev. >>> >>> - Jari >>> >>> >> Dragging from Application Finder does create the launcher on the panel, >> but not on the desktop. >> >> - -- >> Charlie Kravetz >> > > That's funny. A regression on xfdesktop's part even. You see, on 10.10/4.6 > dragging to the desktop seems to work but I think dragging to the panel is a > new feature in 4.8. > > I would try not to single out too many applications for the user. In fact, I think I would only add the help icon, that would give it more prominence and thus a bigger chance of being read. As the default software selection should be a single application for each task anyway, there should be a minimum amount of applications, meaning that the only selection criteria you could apply would result in adding launchers of either zero or all applications to the panel by default. > - Jari > > > -- Vincent
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