[K12OSN] Custom menus?

[Les Mikesell]

This isn't specifically a k12ltsp question, but someone may have an 
interesting technique so I'll ask here anyway.   I'd like to set up a 
menu system that scales to a large number of choices and can be easily 
modified - and it should be usable by a group of users, but not 
necessarily all users on the machine. The first use will be to allow 
quickly ssh'ing to a large number of other machines arranged in groups 
but it will likely expand to several other operations and vnc/rdesktop 
connections as well.

I could do a mac-like applications folder with launchers in the 
filesystem for every operation and symlink that into everyone's desktop 
but that seems a little cumbersome.  Are there better approaches?

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com