An obvious problem with BigBoards application selection

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Mon Jun 11 21:41:29 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 16:44 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 12:05 +0200, David Nielsen wrote:
> > I've been playing with Bigboard for a while now and for this stage in
> > development it's both fairly solid and useful, however one thing makes
> > it work rather badly - the way it selects applications.
> > 
> > My background is on the QA team which means I tend to favor crashing
> > applications, reproducing crashes over and over. This leads to bug-buddy
> > being launched quite a bit, in fact so much that's now the 6th most used
> > application on my desktop, which means it's now listed in my application
> > list. The thing is Bug-buddy is no use for me as a separately started
> > application so it shouldn't be listed there in the first place.
> 
> Right - there are two issues here.
> 
> The first is that bug buddy shouldn't be listed as an application.

Bug-buddy does not show up in the classic menus; even though it does
have a desktop file. Maybe bigboard should pay attention to the
NoDisplay field.





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