[indiana-discuss] [desktop-discuss] 2008.11 UI Spec

[Sanjay Nadkarni]

Calum Benson wrote:
> On 13 Aug 2008, at 13:26, Ghee Teo wrote:
>
>   
>>  You know that once all the additional apps that are currently in  
>> spec-files-other
>> went into nevada WOS, the menu layout between Nevada and OpenSolaris  
>> will
>> be so far apart beyond recognition. That is the consequence of using  
>> Nevada as
>> a dumping portal :(. While this may be not a problem for non-GUI  
>> app, but for
>> applications that delivers a .desktop file, that is what going to  
>> happen!
>>     
>
> That's why I've been asking (internally) if we could devise a way to  
> ensure that all apps that aren't listed in the Nevada UI spec have the  
> "NoDisplay=True" line added to their .desktop file-- preferably  
> automatically at build or install time, since that line would need to  
> be absent when downloaded and installed from an OpenSolaris repository.
>
> That way, if you wanted to add such an app to your Nevada Applications  
> menu, it would just be a checkbox away in the menu editor.  (Or you  
> could just run it from the command line anyway.)
>
> Most other people I've mentioned it to seem to think it would be great  
> to have 500* different applications on their Nevada menu by default,  
> though, so maybe I'm fighting a losing battle...
>   
Count me in for people who don't want the menu to be cluttered.

-Sanjay

> Cheeri,
> Calum.
>
> * Ok, slight exaggeration... but if we don't draw the line somewhere  
> and the repositories grow as quickly as we'd like, then 500 could be a  
> conservative estimate in a year or two...
>
>