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benplaut

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Registered: 2006-06-13

Posts: 383

Re: Novell slab menu

That sort of thing should IMNSHO not be used for system stuff... Stick with text files for that. For desktop environments, sure, but during boot time? Naah...

afaik, gconf is all in xml files...

iBertus

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From: Greenville, NC

Registered: 2004-11-04

Posts: 2,228

Re: Novell slab menu

That sort of thing should IMNSHO not be used for system stuff... Stick with text files for that. For desktop environments, sure, but during boot time? Naah...

afaik, gconf is all in xml files...

Yes, I believe you are correct. However, I wouldn't want my system configs to be in XML format. Can you imaging having to hack a XML file everytime you wanted to make a small change in the system config.

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Mr Green

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2003-12-21

Posts: 5,929

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Re: Novell slab menu

Yes, I believe you are correct. However, I wouldn't want my system configs to be in XML format. Can you imaging having to hack a XML file everytime you wanted to make a small change in the system config.

/me would never touch XML lol

I think the vista menu in Gnome is just another way of trying to get Windows users over to Linux .. after all they are used to having huge slabs of menus and icons all over there screen...

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pauldonnelly

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Registered: 2006-06-19

Posts: 776

Re: Novell slab menu

I kind of like the slab menu. It seems you can just click the menu button and type to get the program you want, which is neat.

Mr Green

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2003-12-21

Posts: 5,929

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Re: Novell slab menu

speaking of gconf..
an interesting project, called elektra, is another attempt to give linux a single config registry type thingy...
http://www.libelektra.org/

They use a library instead of a daemon, to access the confs, which is very nice... that way, it can be used during boot time (even init).

Or even Tenor ;-)

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Blaasvis

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Registered: 2003-01-17

Posts: 467

Re: Novell slab menu

sorry guys, this will take a bit longer. My system has broken down.

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djpharoah

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From: SoCal

Registered: 2006-06-18

Posts: 185

Re: Novell slab menu

any update on this? I really want to install this on my gnome desktop.

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Ryujin

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From: Centerville, Utah

Registered: 2005-05-12

Posts: 246

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Re: Novell slab menu

yep this is interesting, I am not a big fan of the gnome menu, so I would like to see an alternative availabe, but I just like alternatives

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djpharoah

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From: SoCal

Registered: 2006-06-18

Posts: 185

Re: Novell slab menu

I installed it from AUR.

However whenever I go to add it to my gnome panel, it crashes and the "tell developers" window pops up.

Anyone else get this error?

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cdude

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Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 16

Re: Novell slab menu

ok i made a couple of patches, http://ichigo.soulfly.nl/slab-patches/.

i will see if i can find time to make the pkgbuilds... soon, and add them to the aur.

nice patches, thnx. 
I am adding them to slab-cvs on aur if you don't mind.

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loupy

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Registered: 2006-10-31

Posts: 77

Re: Novell slab menu

It looks like gnome cvs calls it gnome-main-menu now not slab - so the AUR package needs some tweaking in order to get it to work.  I was able to make a package out of it but after installation it seems as if recent applications feature does not work.   Any chance of getting an updated PKGBUILD with patches?

Also, does anyone know how to have the search feature in the main page instead of clicking on more applications?