SlabMenuForDesktop

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kmon: The recently used applications doesn't work because it needs a patch from opensuse, I've opened a bug [https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/slab/+bug/66617 here]. Can someone take a look at it? kmon: The recently used applications doesn't work because it needs a patch from opensuse, I've opened a bug [https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/slab/+bug/66617 here]. Can someone take a look at it? -- I've asked upstream to add suse patches, but it's not clear if they are going to make it for 2.18. I think ubuntu dev's should consider them if slab is going to be included in main as an alternative since this functionality is probably one of the best uses of this new menu. thanks

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(Previous version of the spec available on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Slab)

Summary

The new Novell menu applet is nice and should be available for the users who want to use it.

Rationale

Having that menu applet available would make GNOME users happy and we want them to be happy Ubuntu users.

Use cases

  • Martin has just used the laptop of one of this friend which is running Novell Desktop and he thinks that their panel menu is really nice, he would like the use the same menu on his Ubuntu desktop now

Scope

The Ubuntu desktop

Design

We will make that applet available from the CD as an option. We prefer to stick to the upstream choice for the default menu and we don't have any strong argument for switching

MattZimmerman: available from the CD how? as a .deb which is not installed by default? as a new default package?

SebastienBacher: add gnome-main-menu to the desktop seed, it'll be available from the "add to panel" applets list

MichaelAnckaert: Make it available as an applet to add to the panel? This is the easiest way to do this.

Implementation

The applet is already packaged as gnome-main-menu to universe, it'll need to be promoted via the MainInclusionProcess. Most of the features are already working, we just need to update the package management commands to use gnome-app-install.

Data preservation and migration

No migration required

BoF agenda and discussion

One of the Google SoC 2006 project is a panel switcher: http://code.google.com/p/panelswitcher/. We will have a look on it, if it's working fine we will ship a stock Ubuntu profile and a profile using the new applet

kmon: The recently used applications doesn't work because it needs a patch from opensuse, I've opened a bug [https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/slab/+bug/66617 here]. Can someone take a look at it? -- I've asked upstream to add suse patches, but it's not clear if they are going to make it for 2.18. I think ubuntu dev's should consider them if slab is going to be included in main as an alternative since this functionality is probably one of the best uses of this new menu. thanks

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SlabMenuForDesktop (last edited 2010-09-30 03:07:05 by aepw173)