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#78 Common programs access menu
I'm thinking of a new menu in the menu bar called "Run"
which contains the following entries:
- Custom...
- Command prompt
- Text Editor
- Image Editor
- Music Player
- Video Player
Additionally there could be other entries.
The whole idea behind this would be to give the user a
quick way to access commonly used programs, regardless
the operating system. These entries could be customized
from the existing External Tools property page.
Having this feature JCommander would ease the
accomodation with any operating system since it would
offer, besides uniform file management across operating
systems, easy to use shortcuts to commonly used programs.
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These tools should be launched in the active panel's current
directory. So for instance we need to assure that the
command prompt opens up for the current directory.
We should discuss the defaults and recommendations for
Windows, Linux and MacOS X.
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It might be useful to allow the user to add entries to each
item (or some of them), so it's not not just a commonly used
program but a list of programs. For example, Text Editor
category might point to the list: Notepad, MS Word.
May be, it also makes sense to allow the user to add
categories.
I would also suggest to add
- Browser v
(the arrow indicates a list of browsers)
This idea is similar to Macromedia Dreamweaver, the option
to preview in several browsers.
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Sorry, the previous comment was mine. crazzycloe
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I'm not sure how useful it would be to provide a summary of
the system's program menu. But having multiple programs per
required functionality might help.
However, I'd like to propose a simpler approach for now:
Just the limited entries as initially described. We could do
this fast (read: included in the next release) and study
this issue further regarding ways of improvement.
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TODO get the current directory of the active panel in the
active tab
TODO run the command in this directory
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The implementation has been finalized.