A late reply: including a screenshot exceeded the posting size limit,
so I'm re-sending without the screenshot.

On Sat, Dec 28, 2024 at 06:35:27PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote

> But the startmenu...
>
> On Mandrake/Mandriva at least, when you first installed the OS, every
> application you install is on the startmenu. However, anything you
> install afterward is *not* on the startmenu. You could edit the start
> menu source data, which is sort of like an overcomplexificated json,
> but if you get it wrong, and it's very easy to get wrong, you break the
> entire menu. Once upon a time there was a tool to easily configure the
> menu, but the IceWM author made changes to the menu which were
> incompatible with the tool, so if you need to add an application,
> you're back down to counting braces.

I have a knack for "counting braces". And oh yes, I do backup the
current menu before working on it, in case things go wrong. Then again,
I'm the control freak who's used Gentoo for years.

My secret... I started out small with just a few items, and have
gradually added applications one-at-a-time over the years. The real
power of ICEWM taskbar is submenus. I have multiple Pale Moon (Firefox
spinoff) browser profiles. Using separate profiles means...

* One website's 3rd-party cookies don't get shared with other websites

* If a braindead website takes down the browser, it only takes down that
profile, not every browser tab that I have open at the time.

* Since these are separate profiles, one click opens up the webpage(s) I
want, and only those webpages.

This power is not limited to browsers. I can directly open up a
specific spreadsheet or a specific audio stream.

--
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@???>
There are 2 types of people in this world
1) Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data