Post-4.4: Appfinder

[Stephan Arts]

On 1/15/07, Benedikt Meurer <benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de> wrote:
> Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
> >>> [2] This is just an idea that came to my mind suddenly. Since
> >>> creating launchers by dropping appfinder items on the panel is too
> >>> difficult to implement according to Jasper, what if the panel
> >>> offered a D-BUS API for adding launchers? This could work like this:
> >>>       1. You click on 'Add to panel...' in the appbrowser context
> >>> menu
> >>>       2. The app item details (e.g. name, icon, command) are send
> >>> to the panel using the D-BUS API.
> >>>       3. The panel displays a list of panels on the current screen
> >>> and after you select one of them, a launcher is added to it.
> >>>     Sounds weird? Yes!
> >> IMHO, that's not the way to go. We need to address the real problem:
> >> The panel does not use .desktop files for launchers. If the panel
> >> would use .desktop files, this - and several other things - would be
> >> really easy: Just send the URI of the .desktop file to the panel and
> >> the panel will create a launcher for it. If the .desktop file is
> >> deleted, the panel will remove the launcher. If the .desktop file is
> >> altered, the panel will reload the launcher. This would also allow to
> >> use exo-desktop-item-edit for the panel, and so the panel would get
> >> all the goodies for free, and we'd have a consistent UI for launchers
> >> everywhere.
> >
> > I leave that to Nick and Jasper to discuss, hehe. I agree with you in
> > that desktop files for panel launchers would indeed be nice and more
> > flexible.
> >
> > I'll keep you (as in "the ML") informed about the appbrowser progress.
> > The only thing that looks slightly non-trivial is the canvas stuff, but
> > even that should be do-able.
>
> We should probably wait for the GTK people. IIRC a GtkCanvas is planned
> for one of the next releases.
>

Wouldn't this mean we need to force users to upgrade their gtk to 2.12
or something for an application chooser?

Stephan