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sadko4u
Single launcher
Hi! Is it possible to make the launchers one? I mean, this is annoying tho
Sorry about that
Hello!
You're not the only who claims about LSP icons flooding GNOME menu entries. The main problem is that GNOME is not following the XDG standard and not grouping these icons into a single folder.
Since 1.1.30 I decided to delegate the icon installation and maintenance to distribution maintainers by moving icon installation to a dedicated target in the makefile which is not run by default.
Please also see the #193 ticket for the detailed description.
If you have any questions/suggestions, please welcome.
Hmm, yeah, but I think not providing launchers at all is way too extreme. What about making a single app launcher like "Chrome App Launcher" but it's a window, not a popup. You can imagine it as "GNOME Tweaks" or something
I agree with @sadko4u , dealing with Gnome is kinda pain in the ass. It is the only environment not providing grouping of desktop files (while there are even special desktop directory annotations for them).
I know it's not the fault of users, they are the victims, but I think that it should be more on the Gnome platform to get the request and implement back directory views in their shell. That makes a lot of work to make a simple window launcher integrated to the environment, and that's also something that would be necessary for other projects.
P.S.: it's easy for me to say that because I am not a Gnome user lol... but I understand both your need and the project's maintainer issue to implement it.
By another side, implementing launcher application is a good option but for 1.1.x it is not reasonable. I think it will be good to implement 1.2.0 (with complete redesign of core modules) release first and then add a launcher application. So I would consider this issue to be implemented not earlier than 1.2.0 release.
with complete redesign of core modules
Dang! Can't believe that a simple app launcher affects the whole core modules :D lol PS: I never contributed here tho, so I don't know what's going on with the source code
but I understand both your need and the project's maintainer issue to implement it.
It's gonna be a pain for multi-desktop-manager distro maintainers if we change our design :v
@rivanfebrian123 I think you understood me a bit improperly. The launcher won't affect core modules. But the introduction of the launcher is not reasonable at this time since the core of LSP Plugins project is varying significantly when introducing 1.2.0.
My point was that we can wait a bit until 1.2.0 is released and then introduce the launcher application for standalone version of plugins.
Oh... I see. Also, I think we should make a guideline about packaging this library. For example:
"You can provide two different packages for LSP, for example: lsp-plugin-gnome (or lsp-plugin-single-launcher) and lsp-plugin (the 'default' one, with multiple launchers)"