[Live-demo] Add all installed application to the menu at the top of the desktop.

[Hamish]

Hamish:
> > entire new menus require a new *.menu file.

fwiw I've now added a Databases submenu. It will pick up some
stuff automatically, but I haven't specifically added anything
to it.

how to do sub-sub-menus is still unknown.


Judit wrote:
> > Along similar lines I strongly wonder if we should rename
> > "Servers" as "Web Services"?

Judit wrote:
> yes, this makes perfect sense to me.

anybody second the motion or object? I don't mind too much either way.


> Also the categorie's submenue should not be called
> "geoservers" as this may be confused with the application
> GeoServer.
> (see install_desktop.sh, line 144: Categories=Geospatial;
> Geoservers;)

I know, but am not really worried about it. That is an entirely
internal catch-phrase which is not exposed to the user.


> And while I am at it: deegree should be in this category as
> well. I am just reporting this as deegree already is in the
> SERVER_APPS list but it doesn't seem to work out in
> 3.0-rc3a.iso. It does not show up in the respective folder.
> Instead, deegree icons are still crowding the desktop.

this should be fixed now.

> Has the change in install_desktop.sh been made after this
> rc3a-build? that would figure.

Yes, finally fixed (I hope) last night with info learned from
the 3rc3 build. You can try to re-run the install script to
clean it all up from a 3rc3 VM though:

> * menu creation for an established user account should be working now,
> but it is important that you not be running xfce4-panel or xfce4-session
> as the 'user' at the time, as if you are, the modifications will be
> overwritten when you log out & lost.
>
> Alex (or anyone else with the 3rc3 VM, can you try -
> - to add a new user and log in as them and see if the menu shows up on the
> panel?
> 
> - while logged on as this other user, su to root and do:
>    (ie while "user" is NOT logged in)
> 
>   cd ~user/Desktop/
>   # move icons back into top Desktop/ dir:
>   IFS='|'
>   for file in `find | grep '\.desktop$' | tr '\n' '|'` ; do
>      mv "$file" .
>   done
>   unset IFS
>
>   cd /usr/local/share/gisvm/trunk/bin/
>   svn up  #  :-)
>   ./install_desktop.sh
> 
> and check if it all works?



thanks,
Hamish