[Ralf Gesellensetter] > goPlay, goLearn and any other variation could become a central element > of CDD's desktop if there was a simple button "start this application" > implemented. Rather than browsing menus, the (novice) user would > browse the goPlay/goLearn catalogue for relevant applications - and > then start any installed application right from there.
I agree that this would make goplay a lot more useful, and am looking at a way to implement it to include golearn in Debian Edu. To avoid changing the GUI, I propose to make clicking on the screen shot start the application. With a tooltip when hovering over the screen shot telling the user that clicking on it will start the program (for installed packages) should tell users how to start the program. To figure out how to start the application, I suggest checking the installed package for any .desktop files in /usr/share/applications/. If such desktop file is found, use its content/rules to start the application. If no such desktop file is found, goplay will not start anything (most packages have such desktop file already). I'm not quite sure what to do if more than one .desktop file is found, but I suggest starting the one with the name as the package if such file exist. Is this an acceptable design for you? Btw, is this application dead upstream? No upload for two years and an obvious patch to get rid of compiler warnings lingering in Ubuntu made me worried. Also, golearn only show two packages in Wheezy, while it show ~20 packages in Squeeze. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
