There is no easy way in E to get "shortcuts" in the sense that Windows users expect. E did historically have a thing called a "button" that can have a slide-out set of icons. I think the only theme left that has buttons in the E distro is Ganymede. Enabling the buttons requires some fiddling, as I recall there is an instruction about it in the Ganymede theme directory in the E dist. That method is seldom used, I don't know why. For a while I was really excited about buttons and slideouts in E DR13, but with each successive release there have been fewer and fewer themes that have button code in them.
Rather, to get icons in the sense that a windows user would look for, you have to run some other program that can manage the desktop. Nautilus (from Gnome2) will do that for you, but only if you let it control the background image, which defeats much of the beauty of E (and different pictures on different workspaces). There is a program called rox-filer that has a pinboard thing for icons on the background, and that includes a pretty good file manager. There is also a stand alone program called idesk that you can configure to put icons on the desktop, but it requires pretty much hand coding at the current time.
One of my big disappointments with Gnome 2 is that they have tried to focus everything into Nautilus, which might be nice for new users, but makes things really difficult for people who aren't. For example, in the previous incarnation of Gnome, one could run a file manager GMC and one could have icons on the background, even though the background was controlled by the window manager.
enough ranting.
good luck. pj
Raimar Sandner wrote:
On 16:21 Sun 20 Jul , Manuel Rodriguez Rodriguez-Grandjean wrote:
I'd like to know how I can add shortcuts to my e-desktop, if it's
possible, or how I can performance my aplication menu to be more
functional. Thanks
e16menuedit helped me a lot to costumize my application menu.
Greetings
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