Tomboy doesn't currently have a desktop file, so it doesn't appear in the menu. This seems to be done deliberately in the Makefile, as the tomboy icon normally appears on the panel anyway while running. However, if its not in the menus and not already running, how do you start it?
Should we add it to the menus? I'm not sure how Alex (graveley) was thinking about this. Alex, how was this supposed to work?
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hi,
On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 13:34 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
Should we add it to the menus? I'm not sure how Alex (graveley) was thinking about this. Alex, how was this supposed to work?
Well we could start it by default like we do gnome-power-manager and gnome-screensaver. While it's not as necessary for a functional desktop as the g-p-m and g-s, it is a pretty cool program that we might want to show off. And if people know about it then it may even be really useful for them.
On the flip side, what notification area icons give us is the ability to start an applet programatically. If we don't want that, and instead want a way for the user to manual start an applet, it really should be in the add to panel dialog.
Having a menu item in the menus that doesn't do anything (except maybe create a flash in the corner of the users eye that they may or may not identify as tomboy getting added to their notification area) doesn't seem like a good idea to me.
--Ray
tor, 26.01.2006 kl. 19.04 skrev Ray Strode:
hi,
On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 13:34 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
Should we add it to the menus? I'm not sure how Alex (graveley) was thinking about this. Alex, how was this supposed to work?
Well we could start it by default like we do gnome-power-manager and gnome-screensaver. While it's not as necessary for a functional desktop as the g-p-m and g-s, it is a pretty cool program that we might want to show off. And if people know about it then it may even be really useful for them.
On the flip side, what notification area icons give us is the ability to start an applet programatically. If we don't want that, and instead want a way for the user to manual start an applet, it really should be in the add to panel dialog.
Having a menu item in the menus that doesn't do anything (except maybe create a flash in the corner of the users eye that they may or may not identify as tomboy getting added to their notification area) doesn't seem like a good idea to me.
--Ray
When speaking of autostarted "deamons" on login - how is palm syncronisation handled? I don't know about rawhide/fc4, but on FC2, i have to enter the pilot config dialog for the pc-side "daemon" to be started, in order to be able to sync my palm. How about evolution, which seems to be a part in this (as the calendar/todo is synced to it)?
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