From: Sprague, I. <spr...@ms...> - 2000-10-03 07:02:57
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First, lemme say hi, seeing as this is my first post to this list. Second, excellent job on ROX-filer (documentation is stellar!). However, my post regards the following user-experience issues, which you may or may not want to fix. 1: Items cannot be removed from the panel or pinboard by dragging them to a trash-can type folder (I haven't really tried using ROX to set up a trashcan, since it doesn't implement some of the features I want. This problem is mostly with dropping files to GMC or XFtree (XFCE)). If I do this, it kills the link, but does not remove it from the panel/pinboard. 2: Change icons... I cannot change the icons in any obvious way, this, believe it or not, is the main thing stopping me from ditching GMC completely. 3: Cannot mount a mountpoint on the panel/pinboard. If I drop a link to a mountpoint on the panel or pinboard, I cannot mount it from its context menu. Thus, I'm still using GMC and wmmounter for this. (I know I could just use XFCE. it's a minor convenience issue.) 4: MIME types. This one is rather lame, but: how hard would it be to modify the configure script to make the ROX Standard mime-info file a symlink to the GNOME mime-info files, if GNOME is detected. It would take a bit more ad-hocity, but the same could be done with KDE's mimelnk directory. However, having said that, ROX-filer integrates very well with the makeshift desktop I use (ROX-filer, Window Maker, XFCE and GMC) |
From: Thomas L. <ta...@le...> - 2000-10-03 16:01:07
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On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Sprague, ITSN wrote: > First, lemme say hi, seeing as this is my first post to this list. Second, > excellent job on ROX-filer (documentation is stellar!). > > However, my post regards the following user-experience issues, which you may > or may not want to fix. > > 1: Items cannot be removed from the panel or pinboard by dragging them to a > trash-can type folder (I haven't really tried using ROX to set up a > trashcan, since it doesn't implement some of the features I want. This > problem is mostly with dropping files to GMC or XFtree (XFCE)). If I do > this, it kills the link, but does not remove it from the panel/pinboard. 'move' isn't supported by the panel, only copy. It sounds reasonable to add this at some point. > 2: Change icons... I cannot change the icons in any obvious way, this, > believe it or not, is the main thing stopping me from ditching GMC > completely. Which icons do you want to change? I'm guessing that it's the mount points? We are hoping to add the ability to set icons for mount points in the future... > 3: Cannot mount a mountpoint on the panel/pinboard. If I drop a link to a > mountpoint on the panel or pinboard, I cannot mount it from its context > menu. Thus, I'm still using GMC and wmmounter for this. (I know I could just > use XFCE. it's a minor convenience issue.) Shift-Click on a mount point will mount or unmount it. Is this what you want? It should go on the menu too, I suppose ;-) > 4: MIME types. This one is rather lame, but: how hard would it be to modify > the configure script to make the ROX Standard mime-info file a symlink to > the GNOME mime-info files, if GNOME is detected. It would take a bit more > ad-hocity, but the same could be done with KDE's mimelnk directory. How about a little script that searches for .mime files in the GNOME and KDE directories and adds symlinks to Choices? Thomas Leonard -- tal197 at users.sourceforge.net The ROX desktop (free/GPL) : http://rox.sourceforge.net |