[rox-users] Re: [rox-devel] ROX-Filer 1.1.7

[Greg S. <gs...@fr...>]

On Mon, 3 Sep 2001 16:35:51 +0100, Thomas Leonard said:


>  New features:
>  
>  - Added a Send To menu (Stephen Watson). You can bring this up by
>    Shift+Menu clicking over a file and then choosing an application from
>    the menu that appears.
>  
>    The menu is created from the SendTo directories in CHOICESPATH, and you
>    can set things up easily using the Customise item at the bottom of the
>    menu.

I Like this feature.  Nice contribution Stephen!
I have a suggestion for it.  Would it be more UI efficient to allow
multiple run actions per mimetype, and then select from a list based on
the mime-type of the file you are pointing at?	

A way to do this that fits with the current scheme would be to simply
create subdirectories in the ~/Choices/SendTo directory, each one named
as a MIME-Type, with links to the run actions within each directory.

Another way, which fits within ROX's original configuration structure
much better, IMHO, would be to change the ~/Choices/MIME-types
directory.  You would have subdirectories, one for each MIME-type, and
within those directories would be the list of applications you could
choose to run what you are pointing at.

In both methods, you could specify a special file name (just like
AppRun, or AppIcon.xpm, etc) for the default launch action when a file
of that type is clicked.  Call it Default, for example.  You could keep
the 'Set Run Action' Interface, and just have it store to
~/Choices/MIME-types/type_subtype/Default instead of the current
~/Choices/MIME-types/type_subtype.

Then the UI could be the same.	The only change I would like to see is
'Send To...' being a fly-out menu as opposed to it's own.  The current
way kindof breaks the consistency of the interface, IMO.

Good stuff guys, keep it up!

Oh yeah...I posted a comment on Slashdot last night and mentioned ROX. 
I had links to the main ROX site, as well as links to images of my
desktop, showing off ROX.  Within a couple of hours, I had over 350
hits for the images on my webserver, and this on a comment that wasn't
moderated up to display in the main thread!  People are interested, and
I think the ROX userbase will definitely be growing!

-- Greg


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