[Cdk-devel] [ jchempaint-Feature Requests-829023 ] A menu that will give me the content of user.home
From: SourceForge.net <no...@so...> - 2003-10-24 18:17:20
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Feature Requests item #829023, was opened at 2003-10-23 18:38 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=360084&aid=829023&group_id=10084 Category: None Group: None Status: Open Priority: 9 Submitted By: Egon Willighagen (egonw) Assigned to: Egon Willighagen (egonw) Summary: A menu that will give me the content of user.home Initial Comment: To be able to easily determine where plugins and dictionaries should be placed, there should be a menu (in Help?) that will give me the directories where those should be placed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=360084&aid=829023&group_id=10084 |
[Cdk-devel] [ jchempaint-Feature Requests-829023 ] A menu that will give me the content of user.home
From: SourceForge.net <no...@so...> - 2003-12-15 12:15:44
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Feature Requests item #829023, was opened at 2003-10-23 17:38 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by petermr You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=360084&aid=829023&group_id=10084 Category: None Group: None Status: Open Priority: 9 Submitted By: Egon Willighagen (egonw) Assigned to: Egon Willighagen (egonw) Summary: A menu that will give me the content of user.home Initial Comment: To be able to easily determine where plugins and dictionaries should be placed, there should be a menu (in Help?) that will give me the directories where those should be placed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Peter Murray-Rust (petermr) Date: 2003-12-15 12:15 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=125666 Egon, Is this feature still active? We have a volunteer who would be willing to tackle this task if it is still active and clearly defined. AFAICS what you want is a menu item under Help that gives a directory listing of user.home (independent of the operating system) and allows you to interrogate the files underneath it and see their relevance to JCP (or possibly Jmol). If the user has no plugins then this menu would prompt them as to where to add the plugin without having to know about user.home, etc. Also is there any way that plugins can identify their purpose (e.g. a mini-help file) from information within the plugin *.jar file? This could be offered to the user to help them decide what the plugins were for. Does this make sense? P. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=360084&aid=829023&group_id=10084 |
[Cdk-devel] [ jchempaint-Feature Requests-829023 ] A menu that will give me the content of user.home
From: SourceForge.net <no...@so...> - 2003-12-15 13:24:38
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Feature Requests item #829023, was opened at 2003-10-23 18:38 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by egonw You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=360084&aid=829023&group_id=10084 Category: None Group: None >Status: Closed Priority: 9 Submitted By: Egon Willighagen (egonw) Assigned to: Egon Willighagen (egonw) Summary: A menu that will give me the content of user.home Initial Comment: To be able to easily determine where plugins and dictionaries should be placed, there should be a menu (in Help?) that will give me the directories where those should be placed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Egon Willighagen (egonw) Date: 2003-12-15 14:24 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=25678 Well, this RFE was just for a menu item that contains the content of ${HOME}... so that people understand where plugins should be installed. That's all. And that has been implemented in CVS last week. (Closing RFE now). The CDK website will have a section defining the possible plugins, but have not uploaded this yet. One page for each plugin. But, the plugin itself should have an about box and help too... or can have... there is no API for that yet, but we can easily squeeze that in... Since people have to manually install plugins at this moment, I guess they will know what the plugins does when installed, so browsing a dir might not be first priority... Better would be a nice Plugin De-/Install Maganer such as jEdit has... which can download an index file with descriptions etc, and can download the jars from internet likewise... that would be great. Not that we cannot have a browser to probe jars for possible plugins, but I think a install manager would be easier to use... This manager would also list the installed plugins... Maybe you volunteer can contact the developers list to further discuss the extensions? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Peter Murray-Rust (petermr) Date: 2003-12-15 13:15 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=125666 Egon, Is this feature still active? We have a volunteer who would be willing to tackle this task if it is still active and clearly defined. AFAICS what you want is a menu item under Help that gives a directory listing of user.home (independent of the operating system) and allows you to interrogate the files underneath it and see their relevance to JCP (or possibly Jmol). If the user has no plugins then this menu would prompt them as to where to add the plugin without having to know about user.home, etc. Also is there any way that plugins can identify their purpose (e.g. a mini-help file) from information within the plugin *.jar file? This could be offered to the user to help them decide what the plugins were for. Does this make sense? P. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=360084&aid=829023&group_id=10084 |