Easily manage multiple launchers in a GNOME panel with quick-lounge-applet

If you like to have a great number of application launchers on your GNOME panel, but don't like the way you have to move each and every one of them when you re-organize your applets, quick-lounge-applet is for you.

What is it?
quick-lounge-applet is a GNOME panel applet that can manage a list of launchers, with ordering, icon and name selection, separators for sections, etc.




Why use it?
Since you'll be using only one applet for are launchers, instead of an applet for each single launcher, you'll be able to move this as a whole, should you want to re-organize your panels. For example, if you have 15 launchers on the top-left panel, and would like to move them to the bottom panel, it would be cumbersome with actuals launchers. With quick-lounge, it's a one-step operation.

Also, you'll be sure that the launchers get all evenly spaced, and you won't have any trouble adding a new launcher between two already existing ones.

How to use it?
In Ubuntu (and possibly other distros), you can install the quick-lounge-applet package.

sudo apt-get install quick-lounge-applet

Once done, right-click on the GNOME panel, where you want to install the applet, and select "Add to Panel...". Select "Launchers List" from the list, then click "Add".

To add, remove and edit existing launchers, right-click on the applet you just added, where there is no launcher icon, and select "Preferences" from the popup menu. From there, I'm sure you can figure out what you have to do.

That being said, do you think such application launchers are still relevant? Personally, I don't see myself getting rid of them soon, but who knows?