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General Info
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The gnome-main-menu is a set of three utilities. A gnome-panel applet similar
to the traditional main-menu but a few addtions and changes. In particular the
gnome-main-menu does not provide direct access to all the applications on the
system, but rather displays user specified "favorites" and recently launched
applications [1].
Access to all the applications is made through the second of the three
utilities, the application-browser, which is a larger format application than
that the traditional main-menu which is managed by the window manager to allow
for resizing, etc.
The final utility is the gnome-control-center which is laid out exactly as the
application-browser, but providing access to all the system's configuration
utilities.
Both the application-browser and the gnome-control-center are accessible
directly from the main-menu.
Installing
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A standard combination of ...
./configure --prefix=<install_dir>
make
make install
should suffice.
*Note* As for the "recently used applications" functionality, this requires
patched versions of gnome-desktop and gnome-panel. These patches are available
in the patch subdir.
Usage
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After installing a "Gnome Main Menu" applet should appear in your "Add to panel
..." dialog.
Contributing
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This project can be found in gnome svn under the module named "gnome-main-menu". To
access this see: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gnome-main-menu/ Feel free to send
any patches to anyone in the MAINTAINERS file.
Any bugs found with this project can be filed at http://bugzilla.novell.com.
Or, feel free to contact anyone in the MAINTAINERS file with your report.
[1] See the *Note* in the "Installing" section.
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