Re: [Ayatana] Highlighting recently installed software in the menu

2010-08-20 Thread Mohammed Amine IL Idrissi
Maybe we could see if there's a .desktop file, and if there is, then ask if the user wants to open the program, or highlighting the program à la XP. There is also this proposed idea for SoftwareCenter: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter#“Where Is It?” button On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:16 PM, W

Re: [Ayatana] Highlighting recently installed software in the menu

2010-08-20 Thread Ward Muylaert
I believe the offering to open a program after install -used- to be a feature. A possible (?) issue with that, that I see, would be when installing libraries or the likes. For those it certainly wouldn't make sense to offer to open. In other words, how are you going to determine whether what you ju

[Ayatana] Highlighting recently installed software in the menu

2010-08-20 Thread Shane Fagan
Hey all, I had an idea after I installed something and that was I just installed this program but where did it go? Then I looked for the program and found it in the menu so I was thinking we can make it easier by highlighting the menu entry of the recently installed programs. Also I thought it wo