From: <ra...@ra...> - 2001-10-07 03:24:02
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On Wed, 3 Oct 2001 12:55:05 +0200 Wim de Jonge <w.d...@am...> babbled profusely: > > as it's a very important aspect of a file manager and shoudl be 1. easy as > > shit to use, 2. easy as shit to maintain (by the user), 3. powerful > > Pardon my intrusion as an outsider, and interested follower of e development. > I thought I'd add some comments on the GUI handling of attaching filetypes to > applications. If you think this is not neccesary, please ignore the following > comments. > > If you want something that makes it easy for joe average, expand a menu as > far as you need. Take, for example, a jpeg file. The default (highest > priority) mimetype could enable opening it with the Gimp. So, left clicking > would mean "Open with Gimp". You could specify it even more by expanding the > options (windowish right-click), to yield a "Edit"/"View"/"Etc", and, to take > it even further, expand these options: "Edit with Gimp"/"Edit with XV"/"Edit > with whatever". thats what we were talkign about - efm did this. > This would require some hierachy in the settings databases, categorizing mime > types by importance (which prog. is favorite) and context (to edit/view). I i was goign to use a recency use list for ordering these from most recently to least recently used in the "open with... gimp, xv, etc" menu. > think this would minimize mouse-movement, and make choices easier for the > novice (ease of use). Also, it would be simple to grasp the settings ("which > program do I preferentially use to edit/view this file"), and powerful > (sensible defaults but plenty options when required). > > This is of course conceptual, and I have no clue whatsoever how to exactly > implement this (I'm not a talented coder :`( ). Maybe this has been > discussed before (I'm new to this list). If so, please ignore and live/code > happily ever after ;-) > > Cheers, Wim > > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > enl...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel -- --------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ra...@ra... Unemployed Bum ra...@de... Mobile Phone: +61 (0)408 363 984 Home Phone: 02 9386 9362 |