A right click on an empty area of the desktop displays 'PROGRAMS', a left click 'SERVICES' (Setup and configuration) and a click with the middle button of the mouse, 'SESSION' (Power off, Reboot...) A MENU Manager allows user to manage (add/remove) applications entries of the MENU and to create, manage personal shortcuts or links pointing to directories, files, URL and applications of his choice. When created, those shortcuts are available through the entry 'PROGRAMS/My shortcuts' while clicking on the button 'refresh MENU'.... to directory shows the content of the directory in a Rox filer window.
... to file open the file with the default appropriate application : A text file with the default text editor, a picture with the default image viewer, idem for any pdf, audio, video, etc... file supported by the system.
... to URL open the link in the default navigator.
... to application allows to access directly from the entry 'My shortcuts' to any of your favorite applications installed on the system
When creating shortcut, you can drag and drop target from a Rox filer window or from your navigator for URL. You can also choose personalized name and icons different from the default icons proposed by the application.
Any personal shortcut can be removed from MENU, restored to MENU or definitively deleted while clicking on the button 'Delete removed shortcuts from backup directory'.
A pet package of this menu called '2pmm 1.0', was created and can be downloaded below. It contains localization files, actually French and English (/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES and fr/LC_MESSAGES 2Pmm.mo and refresh-menu.mo files) that may be translated to other languages. A 'puninstall.sh' script (allows to uninstall '2Pmm' properly and restores the original configuration) was integrated to this pet. Though all seems running as well as possible, it should probably be cautious to test this 'split menu' through a pfix=ram session !
If interesting in it, please, give your comments or any suggestions, especially about English translation that may be incorrect! (my English is a bit rough!).
Hope sincerely this is useful!
Thank you for your kind attention.
Regards.
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02/10/2010
About 26 users downloaded the previous test pet... Thank you!
Minor modification brought in this latest test version:
Depending of the system font chosen by user, 'MENU' could be displayed improperly (ME NU for example). To prevent this, I replaced letters with pictures that look somewhat better.
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02/28/2010
About 50 users downloaded the previous test pets... Thank you!
Modifications brought in this latest version:
MENU setup:As MENU Manager is installed in English by default, while clicking the 'OK' button, the current option, (Original Puppy MENU: box checked or '3 en 1' MENU: box unchecked) will be actualized to the corresponding language, if locale is not English or was previously modified to another one.
When box is unchecked (default setting), the '3 en 1' MENU is displayed then window opened again. Radio buttons of the MENU context are enabled and let user choose the type of MENU matching with the context (placement of the task bar on the desktop defined by user - JWM configuration\Tray management\Tray Placement Option).
While checking 'Display original Puppy MENU', user can restore the original MENU of Puppy. Radio buttons of the MENU context are disabled.
Modifications have to be validated and the MENU refreshed for changes to take effect.
Note: This split MENU, as well as the original Puppy MENU, is more convenient with task bar at the top of the screen. Task bar at the bottom seems to be a bad remainder of Windows, kept for new users and them not to be disorientated. Menus are always at the top of windows applications and it is therefor quite logical to work the MENU entries the same way!
) I should have to fit this application to the next Toutou LINUX version based on Wary 5.2.2.