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xlunch
Yah, as featured in the latest Slax release
~~ that sprung to mind when I read the comments which sprung up in the “splasht tests need” topic.
Its datastore is “static”, so not really useful non-ideal unless you would craft an apt-get post-install hook, toward automating the chore of adding/removing eyecons (ay-yai-yaicons?) to its datastore. Tomas has posted a suitable updater script to github, but AFAICT he hasn’t created a package for xlunch. (In other words, he apparently adds xlunch + updater manually while assembling the distro.)
ay-yai-yaicons?
The unappealing attribute of xlunch, IMO, is that it’s even MORE dumbed-down than the typical {menu,launcher,finder} widgets we see across various linux desktop environments. It provides no “hint” (aka Comment= line, from the associated .desktop file) ~~ so, if someone acting as a distro curator intends to utilize xlunch, you’re shouldered with deciding whether/where/how to assure the .desktop files are populated with “meaningful” Name= namestrings. Otherwise your users are at the mercy of, subject to the discretion of, upstream’s labelnames. Also, based on my experience while supporting pre-adolescent users and seniors… confusion reigns if/when the system “theming” changes, whisking away and replacing the grown-familiar set of ay-yai-yaicons.
So, in a nutshell, I do not recommend use of xlunch.
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