On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 03:47:18PM +0100, Tim Booth wrote: > There is an icon for fastDNAml in BL6, but it serves absolutely no > useful function whatsoever, since all it does is to bring up a terminal > and show the version of fastDNAml which is installed. > > So I've made a note to remove the icon in BL6, unless I can be bothered > to add a wrapper script that does something useful.
It is nice that you agree that just bringing up a terminal does not do much good for the user. To enlighten my idea for "teaching the user" a bit I would like to point you to http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/blends/projects/med/trunk/debian-med/menu/bio/ which is part of the Debian Med package. *If* you are using Debian Menu (which these day is not very often the case) *and* you are using med-bio with user menus the blends framework cares for a user menu which does the following: 1. Tweak the menu entry to do something more reasonable for a Debian Med user - in the case of ncbi-tools-x11 for instance this is arranging a sub-menu in Med/Biology/ncbi-tools-x11 to make it better accessible amongst all other biology programs 2. Call less in a terminal if there is some <package>.txt file provided to explain the usage of the program 3. Call a browser if there is some <package>.html file provided to give better layout options when explaining the usage of the program Remark: There could be a simple option to fire up a terminal with the manpage. Despite the fact that Debian Menu is considered outdated and is not used by freedesktop.org environment users in principle I like this what I mean with "teaching the user" rather than blindly firing up a terminal. I could perfectly imagine to "port" this principle to freedesktop.org environments. I would be motivated to move this slightly higher on my todo list if somebody would tell me: Hey, that's useful, please code this. (I never heard something like this about the Blends Debian user menu - probably because it is not known / used.) To come back to the actual fastDNAml package, would you think that clicking on the menu entry will fire up a browser pointing to something like http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/blends/projects/med/trunk/debian-med/menu/bio/fastdnaml.html?revision=845&view=co (perhaps with a more reasonable / complete text) would be a reasonable thing to do? Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
