On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 6:18 AM, Martin Herrman<mar...@herrman.nl> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Mark Knecht<markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Yep. And so small I built it by the time your response came back and >> am answering your message from within it. Granted, black screen and >> the menus don't see any of the apps I have installed, so that's the >> same old problem. Isn't there some app for automatically picking up >> apps on putting the menu together auto-magically? >> >> Cheers, >> Mark > > "The Xfce 4 Appfinder is part of the Xfce 4 Desktop Environment and > features application search on the whole system. It searches for > .desktop files based on the freedesktop spec and makes an index of the > found apps." > > Source: xfce website: > http://www.xfce.org/documentation/4.2/manuals/xfce4-appfinder > > Does Gentoo use these .desktop files? > >
OK - I emerged XFCE4 and am writing this message from there. It finds all my apps and the menues seem to be arranged reasonably so I suspect that it might work nicely over time. I haven't had time yet to check any real performance issues - xruns using Jack, or other things that might be important to me, but it seems like a reasonable little setup and it feels responsive starting up. One thing I'm not finding is it doesn't seem to allow a multi-file drag on my desktop to change icon positions. That a minor disappointment. Certainly not a big deal for my life, but I wonder how you mive 20 files created by some audio program to a new folder using the GUI? I thought I was running 1600x1200 in Gnome but XFCE is only offering as high as 1280x1024. I'll check that later and I'm probably incorrect. In general it might be a replacement for Gnome. Feels good. If I had to complain about something it might be that the default setup doesn't seem very sexy. XFCE might benefit from some marketing input. I'll have to spend some time learning how I might improve things a bit. Thanks, Mark
