From: Jonatan L. <th...@te...> - 2003-12-02 10:00:28
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On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 17:27:24 +0100 Guido Schimmels <gui...@fr...> wrote: > Prompting for this seems rather messy. So you run an app the first > time. It then will prompt you for the run-actions. You make your > choices, then a second dialog pops-up forcing the user to make yet > more hard (for the new user) decisions. Sounds like a perfect > candidate for "The Inferface Hall of Shame". If we make it > configurable, we need a better way than that. The only compromise I > can think of is, add it as an option "Automatically add apps to > SendTo menu" to ROX-Filer. Which leads me directly to the thing that > the more I think about it, while it might still be usefull to have > this code in ROX-Lib, it really belongs directly into the filer, so > it works for non-ROX appdirs and app-wrappers too, without fuss. I > have started to add this feature to some apps, like GIMP and AbiWord. > I would be much happier if all I had to do was edit AppInfo.xml, > instead of hacking each and every AppRun too, and in the course > making it depend on ROX-Lib. I have an idea, which I really think is quite good: The filer could put a "Add to SendTo" in the popup when you right-click on an AppDir! That wouldn't be in the way, and it wouldn't do anything unless you want it, and it isn't hard for new users. If they are intelligent enough to find and use the SendTo menu, then they also have the intelligence to click "Add to SendTo". ;) After this is clicked, the filer should respond with an info-box "Added <App> to SendTo for filetypes: <filetypes>", or "<App> was already in SendTo", etc... You could even have a "Remove from SendTo" too, if you don't want to do it manually. Actually, you could even make a "Set run-actions for filetypes of this app", but then it should ask nicely before replacing any run-actions... But I don't know if I like this. /Jonatan __ | __ ____ _ ____ |__/__ _____ _____||___ (_) ____ _____| | )(_____|( | )(_____||_____ | (______(_____| ==============|====================================== ____| http://www.kymatica.tk |