porting of slab(mint menu)

[Srikant]

Hello, I have tried mate desktop and florence keyboard as per Manoj's suggestion, florence is no doubt better than onboard, but it has some appearance issues on lxde, any way that's not the point now, and mate uses around 120MB RAM and bit laggy, so flipping back to lxde. I made few changes in openbox and gtk-2.0 themes which makes it touch friendly, also a nice icon set from faenza makes it eye candy. I will post screenshots soon.
Can any one help me porting mint menu(previously known as slab) on lxde ?
I tried but couldn't find a way, may be we have to replace lxpanel or something, the mint menu will provide nice way to browse menu items.
And also please introduce yourself in your first reply, btw I'm Srikant working at IITB on aakash project.

[Pranav Salunke]

ohk .. ill try my best to port mint menu on lxde .. i had a talk with manoj about how to install lxde , currently ive downloaded lubuntu 12.04. So will get to it asap.

[Manoj Gudi]

yesterday I tried installing mint-menu to lxde
following complaints I have
1> had to install around 100mb gnome-shell
2> few gnome components and dependencies
3> I dont think its touch optimized
yet it dint work properly...
Also I've read mint menu takes up significant RAM

So, i suggested to pranav, why not make our own functional (if not eye-candy) file/app searching tool

we have somewhat tried to make a prototype using Py-qt lib with goals:
1> Light on resources
2> less dependencies
3> Touch optimized
4> searches apps/files and shows recent search_apps;  all search results have icons<touch optimized>

<check screenshot> code@github:  https://github.com/manojgudi/py_finder.git
the following app is just demo... it required max. dependencies of 24mb which can be reduced further i think
RAM usage around 10-15mb max.
and also touch-optimized.

if we get a clear interest in this, we would develop it further...
comments/suggestions/code required

[Manoj Gudi]

it can be linked to lx-panel easily
also the code is modular in design, implying we can change front-end as and when we like without affecting the logic of operation(back-end).

[Srikant]

mint menu(slab) didn't work properly means? Did you get mintmenu running on lxpanel at some point? Making it touch friendly is not an issue though, any way I like the file search tool, make it
part of panel plugin as  you said..and also please continue the reply in same thread :-)

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[Srikant]

Ok..sorry my bad..its the same thread

[Manoj Gudi]

i used apt-get by adding repository of Linux mint (editing /etc/sources.list) getting a public key was mess. it showed it installed mint-menu but it dint integrate with any component, i had to run that with terminal. it was mostly broken

On Nov 18, 2012 7:18 PM, "Manoj Gudi" <manoj....@gmail.com> wrote:

i used apt-get by adding repository of Linux mint (editing /etc/sources.list)
getting a public key was mess.
it showed it installed mint-menu
but it dint integrate with any component, i had to run that with terminal.
it was mostly broken

[Srikant]

That process is usual way, that has binaries for i386 and amd64, this won't work on Aakash

On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 7:18 PM, Manoj Gudi <manoj....@gmail.com> wrote:

i used apt-get by adding repository of Linux mint (editing /etc/sources.list)
getting a public key was mess.
it showed it installed mint-menu
but it dint integrate with any component, i had to run that with terminal.
it was mostly broken

On Nov 18, 2012 7:11 PM, "Srikant" <u.srikan...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Manoj Gudi]

 has anyone tried using window docks on aakash

it'll give great accessibility, good for touchscreens

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/8-power-docks-for-your-linux-machine/

Cairo dock is too resource intensive
awn requires a compositing manager

wbar requires None also very low on resources
Conky dock works with pacmanfm in lxde