[TAG] GUI for idesk ??

[Ben Okopnik]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:32:22PM +0530, J.Bakshi wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> Hope you all are well.
> Is anyone of you using idesk presently ?
> I have no idea about its present status. Is there any GUI available to 
> configure the .lnk file and .ideskrc ? In my debian lenny apt shows only the 
> idesk itself. 
> I would by happy if there is any GUI ( preferably .deb ) which can configure 
> idesk.

This is really, really funny, for two highly appropriate reasons: 1) I
just (re)started using idesk yesterday, and 2) I wrote a very nice GUI
for configuring .lnk files. The latter is something I actually did
several years ago, but it still works quite well: the links that it
creates use the icons from the 'gnome-icon-theme' package, and have the
consistent behavior of opening the .lnk file when double-right-clicked.
More to the point - since we're *very*, *VERY* short of articles this
month, I'm going to throw together an article about this exact topic,
including installation and usage advice.

So, if you're willing to wait a couple of days - our next issue comes
out on the 1st - you'll have access to a very nice GUI for idesk. As far
as I know, there isn't one available outside of that.


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