Re: 'fmenu' - program launcher

On 30 Dec 2001 14:11:03 +1030
Robert Mibus <mibus_at_bigpond.com> wrote:
> As there was an apparent lack of PalmOS/WinCE style program launchers, I
> wrote my own. the 'fmenu' executable can go anywhere, fmenu.glade wants
> to go in /usr/share/.
> It reads all of the files in /usr/lib/fmenu/ and /mnt/ramfs/fmenu/, the
> format is very simple. (There are a few examples in the tarball).
[...]
> http://users.bigpond.com/mibus/fmenu.tar.gz
> Please, bash it around - iPAQ binaries included.

In short: GREAT!
Exactly what was missing and I really wonder why you did not post that
earlier ;)
I just toyed around with it and am absolutely amazed!
The best choice we currently have and the best starting point, IMHO.
So, the very obvious question:
        Would you be willing to take the application manager sub-project?
That is to coordinate efforts and to further help with the development and
integration into what will once become GPE?
This would be really great!

> The only problem I know of is that when you press the group drop-down,
> the list (in the background) often changes to "All"; this appears to be
> a Gtk problem AFAICT. It doesn't affect the usability though.

Could you possibly redesign it to use tabs instead of the pull-down menu
for choosing the category? Maybe this way this "bug" goes away by itself
;) And besides this I think that tabs are easier to navigate through than
this pull-down list.

Another thing that I noticed is that even in categories where just a few
programs are listed the vertical scrollbar is still visible and even
indicates a longer (empty) list. But that's just cosmetics ;)

Anyway, great work, many many thanks!

> mibus
CU
  nils faerber

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