From: Greg S. <gs...@fr...> - 2001-09-03 16:51:19
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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 -- Greg Spath gs...@fr... http://freefall.homeip.net/ |