Small packages and menu entries

[Siegfried-Angel]

Hello,

Are there many small packages like xpenguins and xdesktopwaves? Those
have no menu entry (*), but I don't think they should have (correct me
if I'm wrong) because they have no interface and they are useless.

One solution for that I've thought of is to create a «Launcher» for
them, and application that has a menu entry and that allows you to
start them. Then the packages would be changed to depend of the
launcher (or at least recommend it). That why I do the initial
question, if there aren't many of this applications (for ex., less
than 10) then it has no sense to do this.

If there are many and you agree with this solution, if nobody else
wants to do it I could try to do it this summer, if someone mentors me
with the creation of the program (I'd use Python, but I don't know
much about it yet) and packaging it.

I see two possible approaches, one would be to have the information
about the applications hard-coded and check if it's installed, this
one isn't very good. The other one is to have a folder where all
applications using it place a file telling that they exist and what
parameters they accept, then have the application read the files there
and list those programs.

Now that I've written all this crap I don't think this will matter
anybody, but well... :P


[*] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xpenguins/+bug/60305,
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xdesktopwaves/+bug/60306

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