| > The Lycoris menu usually does not list the application name because so many | > are simply not descriptive. Kooka for example is a scanner application. In | > the menu its "use a scanner". Xine is "DVD/DiVX Player"...simple. | | The Lycoris menu system sounds interesting, but how does it deal | with having multiple applications in one category installed? For | example, if you have vim, emacs, and text edit installed, if | textedit is called "Edit text file" in the menu, are vim and | emacs just listed by name? Hmmm, your actually getting me | somewhat interested in playing with a new distro. Doesn't sound too unlike what Windows XP does with it's new and improved start menu. There are icons for "The Internet" and "E-mail." Now, we all know that "The Internet" should be labeled "Web Browser" or something, but let's just ignore that, it was born out of cluelessness not of MS< but their users. These icons are always there, but the user can reconfigure them. By defaut, they point to Internet Explorer and Outlook Express, but OEM's are allowed to change them (I've seen dell machines come with them pointing to AOL anyway) Anyway, the Lycoris menu system doesn't sound so bad. What would be neat is if they combined that system with Debian's alternative's system. (Or at least did something similar) Editor makes a good example, so in Debian I do: update-alternatives --config editor and I get to pick which program I want as the default editor. andyzb at lnx15 (/etc/alternatives) % update-alternatives --config editor There are 8 programs which provide `editor'. Selection Command ----------------------------------------------- 1 /usr/bin/elvis-tiny 2 /usr/bin/nvi 3 /bin/ae 4 /usr/bin/vim 5 /usr/bin/xemacs21 *+ 6 /usr/bin/joe 7 /usr/bin/nano 8 /usr/bin/pico Enter to keep the default[*], or type selection number: So for the Lycoris menu system, packages that provide X function are updated. Create a nice little GUI thing for selecting, and off you go. Personally, what I do like about MS's way of doing it is under "The Internet" it tells you what program it's going to run. So it's more like: --- The Internet | E | Microsoft Internet Explorer --- Tie Debian's alternatives system in with the Lycoris and mimetypes, and you'd have a file association system that might actually make a bit of sense compared with the current state of Konqueror/Nautlus/GMC/Windows/whatever... Andrew S. Zbikowski | http://www.ringworld.org "The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world."