[ale] Gnome2/Nautilus Desktop Menu?

[Mike Murphy]

a useful desktop menu is a must, but I started mucking again with gnome 
after I discovered that its got one of the smarter panel implementations 
out there (I love the custom size/custom position panels). The window 
list applet in gnome is nice too. Add to that lots and lots of nice 
themes, and on the whole its a pretty good package.

xfce4 was pretty close to what I wanted, but its panel has a long way to 
go. Others I've liked but that haven't quite fit for me are AfterStep 
and iceWM. Most of the geekier WMs are nice enough for incidental work 
(for instance, the MP3 server at home has good ol' TWM on it), but at 
work, I want a little more eye candy and usability. Right now the only 
thing I haven't been able to do in gnome2 is configure the desktop menu.

Mike


Jason Day wrote:
> Mike Murphy wrote:
> 
>>>I'm trying out gnome2 on my RH 8 machine. I was pretty familiar with 
>>>gnome1.x before, but had since moved on to mucking about in KDE, FVWM 
>>>and XFCE4. I like gnome2 generally (once I replace gnome-terminal with 
>>>something a little lighter-weight, fire up gkrellm, etc.), but I can't, 
>>>for the life of me, figure out how to configure the desktop menu that 
>>>nautilus presents. Anyone know? Or maybe a better question is: is there 
>>>an alternative to nautilus for the desktop itself for gnome2? Its a 
>>>memory hog, and I have no need for fancy file manager windows, I just 
>>>want a usefull desktop menu.
> 
> 
> If all you want's a useful desktop menu, I would think gnome would be
> way too much baggage.  Have you looked at AfterStep or WindowMaker?
> Both are small, fast window managers with very configurable menu
> systems.  I prefer AfterStep myself, but WindowMaker is a bit more
> "mainstream".
> 
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 12:28:43PM -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
>>Can't get any lighter weight than xterm and ls. ;)
> 
> 
> Actually, rxvt is lighter weight than xterm :-D

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