From: Thomas L. <ta...@le...> - 2000-07-23 14:04:37
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On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Garrett C wrote: > Hi there! > > On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Thomas Leonard wrote: > > > Directories should now 'spring-open' if you drag a file and hold it over > > one. I've just finished coding it, so it may be a bit rough... ;-) > > This sounds cool. Is it configurable though? It might be nice to have a > choice between this and just being able to insert a file in a directory by > dragging the icon over the directory icon. Or having the filer window that > just popped up disappear once the file had been copied/moved. Maybe that > could depebnd on the button used to drag the file? You can turn the feature on and off now from the options box, but the delay is fixed at the moment. Currently, the window disappears once you've saved, but this could easily be made an option too. > > Also, GNOME-style toolbar has changed to 'Large' toolbar and is no longer > > detachable (was anyone using this feature?). The other mouse button should > > work with it now. > > If you mean the detachable feature, no I wasn't :o) But then, I didn't > realise that was possible... I don't think it was very useful, but it could be re-added if anyone actually wants it. > In the version of ROX I am using, the toolbar does appear a little > empty. Would it be possible to configure it to have icons for things like > display style etc? We need to decide how this is going to work! I guess we'll have a long list of options in the Options box so that you can choose which of all possible buttons appear. Which buttons would people like? - Display menu? Or buttons for the things on the menu (eg Show Hidden)? - Some kind of popup menu showing the directory tree around the current directory. - Close window? Anything else? > > PS: We seem to have moved up 917 places in the sourefore 'Top downloads > > this week'!! > > Excellent! Shows ROX is gaining popularity! > > Out of interest, have you thought of contacting RedHat, Debian etc to see > if they'd include ROX in their distros? That could increase the profile > still further! I was planning on waiting for a stable release first ;-) That said, I've heard of packages being made/available for at least two distros... Thomas Leonard -- ta...@us... The ROX desktop (free/GPL) : http://rox.sourceforge.net |