You can add new entries to the existing menus using smeg (or alacarte as it's now called) but there's no standard way of adding a whole new menu. (Just verified on #gnome-hackers.) I suppose it was lost in the rewrite and nobody thought it was useful enough to add in again.
This makes me think that someone should write a small applet to do this, and since I know it would be very easy in Python, perhaps that person is me. I need to think of a good name for it, though.
My Debian system appears to have no file containing either smeg or alacarte in the name, and "apt-cache search" turns up no uninstalled package under either name either. Where should I be looking?
packages.debian.org says (http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?searchon=names&version=all&exact=1&keywords=alacarte) it's currently only in etch and sid, surprisingly. You can find it under "alacarte" (http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/alacarte/) on cvs.gnome.org if you want to check it out yourself.
I'd be happy to write a general-purpose extra menu. If you're only looking for an SSH menu, this (http://www.mclean.net.nz/ruby/sshmenu/) might do just what you want, though.
Ah, thanks. (First time I've seen Debian sarge be noticeably out of date, in fact. When I was running woody I wouldn't have hesitated to look in unstable before doing anything else at all!)
The menu I want isn't actually quite composed of nothing but SSH entries – a notable exception is the slightly more complex script that connects to Monochrome. I'd adapt the applet you link to there, only I can hardly understand a word of it. (Though that may be just because I speak neither GNOME nor Ruby :-)
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This makes me think that someone should write a small applet to do this, and since I know it would be very easy in Python, perhaps that person is me. I need to think of a good name for it, though.
smegoralacartein the name, and "apt-cache search" turns up no uninstalled package under either name either. Where should I be looking?I'd love an applet that did that!
I'd be happy to write a general-purpose extra menu. If you're only looking for an SSH menu, this (http://www.mclean.net.nz/ruby/sshmenu/) might do just what you want, though.
The menu I want isn't actually quite composed of nothing but SSH entries – a notable exception is the slightly more complex script that connects to Monochrome. I'd adapt the applet you link to there, only I can hardly understand a word of it. (Though that may be just because I speak neither GNOME nor Ruby :-)