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.