[rox-users] Re: new one ! => suggestions for next realeases :-)

[Arnaud C. <ar...@ca...>]

On 06-Jul-2001 Thomas Leonard wrote:
> Good point -- I've put a note at the top of the introduction
> page suggesting reading the getting started guide instead.
[...]
>> - a "sendto" submenu, like in windows, which could be
>> configured to add/modify several apps for any mime-type
>> (ex : a .pls file could be clicked to lauch xmms, but could
>> also be "sentto" an xterm with vi to edit it).

> Well, that already works with shift-click ;-) But yes, we're
> going to add a Send To menu of some kind. It will probably
> just be the contents of `<Choices>/SendTo'.

It works for a .pls file, yes, but not for a text/plain one,
which is always opened the same way !

>> - a mean to configure "open as plain text" option, to use a
>> graphical editor, or sth else...

> It uses whatever you've set for text/plain (is that what you
> mean?).

OK. I hadn't thought about that.

>> - possibility to move the icons on the desktop : unless I
>> didn't
>> find that, it's impossible to move an icon on the right of
>> the
>> screen, after it had been created on the left, for instance

> Middle button drag.

Ahhhhhhhhh :-)))
Great !

>> - possibility to show/hide, and configure the aspects, of the
>> little circle on the "shortcuts"
>=20
> ROX-Filer/pixmaps/symlink.xpm is the icon to edit. You can't
> turn it on
> or off, though (except by making the picture transparent).

In fact, it was the "mount.xpm"...
But thanks, now I know where to modify !

>> - possibility to have a "left panel", like most of the others
>> file managers, which could display the directories tree

> Hmm. I always find those a bit fiddly. Maybe just a list of
> the sibling directories would be easier?
> Eg, if you're in '~', then the list shows everyone else's home
> directory?
> Have to think about this one!

No, I mean : just like in konqueror or mc, for instance, you have
on the left all the hierarchy (from / to your
"/home/me/deep_end_sub-directory), and of course, because you
don't have the right to see/write/exec some, you just can't
r/w/x them !
It allows to access the /mnt/cdrom point in fewer clicks than in
opening /home/me, go to parent dir twice and then go down to
/mnt/cdrom ! Of course you can setup un icon on the desktop to
point directly to /mnt/cdrom, but I don't like to have dozen's
of icon for the same job...

Thanks for your answers !

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