Re: [rox-devel] messy menu

[Garrett C <ga...@cs...>]

Hi all,

On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Thomas Leonard wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Anders Lundmark wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > This is a patch that hooks an application menu to shift click.
> > It's probably quite a mess, because I have no experience in programming.

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> There was some talk a while ago about adding something like this so I hope
> people will try it out and see if it's what we want...
> 
> (for those who haven't tried it, shift-clicking on a directory offers to
> archive it in various formats; clicking on a C file offers to compile it
> or load it in pico, etc - configureable, of course)
> 

This sounds like a good idea - it would add a lot of power to the filer.

> It might be better to make it a separate program, though. You can make
> Shift+Open treat the file as a special type (special/ask or
> somesuch) rather than text/plain and then make your own program the
> handler for that type. I'd rather not put stuff in the filer if it doesn't
> need to be there...

I'm not too sure about how ROX is programmed - I haven't really had time
to look at the code - but I would have thought this would have been a
filer function?

Incidentally, I like the way that ROX is progressing to become more than
just a simple Acorn-alike filemanager, towards (as I see it) being a
desktop shell.

Regards,

Chris.