Opened 13 years ago

Last modified 13 years ago

#135 accepted enhancement

better start menu integration: provide tools, on-off via magic key, start if needed — at Version 1

Reported by: Antoine Martin Owned by: Antoine Martin
Priority: major Milestone: 0.12
Component: Client Keywords:
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Description (last modified by Antoine Martin)

The new feature in 0.11.3 to wrap regular commands via winswitch_command_wrapper is very neat (and fast too!), but for more people to use it we need to make it easier to setup: provide a tool to make it easier to convert a bunch of .desktop files to use/not-use the wrapper.

It needs to:

  • be able to run as root to change system wide settings
  • run as user and save to user specific shortcuts
  • take the blacklists into account so we don't convert software that does not work (see #132)

The freedesktop menu specification seems to allow this sort of thing.

The wrapper also needs an easy way of being toggled:

  • global on/off option which can be changed from applet
  • detect magic key and based on wrapper_magic_key_action, either:
    • launch via wrapper
    • do not launch via wrapper (if default is off)
    • ask
  • option to start the applet if it is not running

Also maybe:

  • detect if the desktop files have been modified (ie: by OS upgrades) and re-apply the changes

Change History (1)

comment:1 Changed 13 years ago by Antoine Martin

Description: modified (diff)
Owner: changed from Antoine Martin to Antoine Martin
Status: newaccepted
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