After the installation of Avant Window Navigator, I have wanted to add the applications (Programs in Windows term but Applications in Ubuntu). To add the applications to AWN doc will free me from the top panel (I like it, actually) and the doc panel looks so great with some turning and spotlighting effects…call me easy to please but AWN is really great eye-candy.
So I was playing with Applets and hoping to add the applications into there. Didn’t work, of course, since Applets are the nice-looking ones brought by the extra installed themes.
I don’t know what’s got into me lately (local beer, or aging?), but I should’ve just googled and find out. I was playing around and finally got into the Launcher’s section and added a couple of applications. Later on, I got lost again and spend a good reasonable amount of time re-discovering Launchers in AWN.
This time, I guess I’d better write a blog about this to remind dummies like me or the dummie-2-be’s (raise your hand?):
Step 1. Click on the AWN Manager (or Applications –> Accessories –> AWN Manager) icon to open it
Step 2. Click on the Launcher section then Add button to add new launchers. You will see the Launcher Editor there.
Step 3. Fill in Name/Description and click Open to choose an APPLICATION to be LAUNCHED.
(Now here’s the hard part: where are the “Program Files” in Ubuntu? You may navigate to File System –> usr –> bin and find the applications there. But don’t ask me which one to choose when you have firefox and firefox 3.0 listed together. I chose the short ones. The road that Ubuntu is freeing us from Microsoft is not an easy path, I tell you.)
