Adding application launcher in desktop panel
Hello RHEL users,
I have recently installed Red Hat Linux workstation 7. Unfortunately, I am failed with adding an application luncher in the desktop panel. I have tried dragging the luncher to the panel, but failed with sticking it to the desktop panel. Could someone suggest me a way to add an application luncher to the panel?. The computer use the default desktop came with RHEL and I think its Genome.
Thanks in advance
acn
Responses
Red Hat
Guru
1517 points
Hi Aneesh,
Launchers can no longer be added to the top panel with Gnome Shell (Gnome 3). Please see https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/7994/how-to-add-launchers-to-the-panel-in-gnome-shell/ for some more information and a potential workaround.
Radek
Expert
978 points
I really hope the Gnome folks (and maybe Redhat) start to get the drift eventually that a lot of the Gnome 2.32 / MATE functionality is indeed a user-demanded feature that needs to be added back to classic mode at least. All of my desktop users have rebelled and are sticking with RHEL 6 until we see what happens with future iterations of Redhat's Gnome classic mode.
Red Hat
Guru
7081 points
I hope the functionality is offered as well. I assume it is possible with an extension, but I did not see anything in the included options by default
gsettings list-recursively org.gnome.nautilus.desktop
org.gnome.nautilus.desktop trash-icon-name 'Trash'
org.gnome.nautilus.desktop text-ellipsis-limit 3
org.gnome.nautilus.desktop background-fade true
org.gnome.nautilus.desktop home-icon-visible true
org.gnome.nautilus.desktop trash-icon-visible true
org.gnome.nautilus.desktop network-icon-visible false
org.gnome.nautilus.desktop font ''
org.gnome.nautilus.desktop network-icon-name 'Network Servers'
org.gnome.nautilus.desktop home-icon-name ''
org.gnome.nautilus.desktop volumes-visible true
If only I knew how to write code ;-)
Red Hat
Guru
1517 points
I can't speak for the Gnome folks or Red Hat Product Management, but if you like MATE, you can install it from EPEL-7.
Expert
978 points
Certainly. But I'm not deploying workstations with a default desktop that deviates from the vendor standard. Users can put MATE on their desktops but that is on them to do.
I just wish the vendor default desktop was made more usable. Don't get me wrong, RHEL 7's take on Gnome 3 has been the most sane I've tried so far. It's still not all that usable though.
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