On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 16:05, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: > > X is designed to let > > anything run remotely. I don't see why the menu button should > > be an exception - someone would really have to go out of their > > way to break it - but I don't know how to invoke it by itself. > > That would be awesome. You could see in an instant what's installed on > each machine, click on the app in menu, and then have it displayed on > your local box. > > I think this would have to be a combo of remote X and network aware > Gnome menu, configured to send it's configuration to a central > workstation. X is natively network-aware. Someone would have really had to go out of their way to make something *not* work the way I want. As I mentioned, you can come close by dragging the launchers onto the desktop then running nautilus to start them. > You would probably also have to throw in ssh keys for > passwordless logins, or export displays. I'd prefer the ssh key method. Good designs don't need special cases. There are already a number of ways to get X to display where you want and any new program started by an existing one will inherit the display if it needs to open a new window. > I'm not sure how useful it would be for the community at large, but I do > know that it would make some tasks much easier. > > I'm not a programmer, otherwise I'd give this a shot. So, who's up for > it? :) > > Les, it might be a good idea to add this to bugzilla as a RFE. It may be that it already works if I just knew the name of the thing that displays the menu. Or if I could get nautilus to see the menu structure without dragging it onto the desktop in a layout like a Mac's application folder. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
