[rox-devel] Re: [rox-users] my wish list for rox

[Christopher A. <chr...@we...>]

Thomas Leonard schrieb:
> What kind of things are you making?

Just wrapper apps with AppMenu for different programs, so that my panel
doesn't become too crowded.
When next university week is over, I will set up a webpage.

> > - possibilitiy to save view options (iconsize, thumbs on/off, summary
> > on/off etc.) for specific directories
> 
> Maybe - the globicons stuff could be generalised a bit.

The thing is, when I open the dir with my wrapper apps (~/share/apps), I
always
change to big icons style first, because it's easier to find an appliction
that way because of the different icons. But in the normal directory
listings I like the summary style.

If you could give a filer window a window title too, we'd have something
like the 
windows/mac os X system settings window!

> Anders Lundmark had a nice little system where all the selected file names
> were sent to a (user created) script which wrote out a list of possible
> commands to execute - the user could click on one to run it.

Sounds good, where can I get it? :-)


> > - "Open with..." command (via shell with implicit positional parameters)
> 
> Probably this just means getting the shell minibuffer to appear with "$@"
> at the end...

Yes, this would be a lot easier to type. But don't forget to set the cursor
to the start of the line.

> > - "Print file" command
> 
> Drag it to the printer? I'd write a little lpr wrapper myself but I don't
> have a printer ;-)

I could write a printer wrapper (with AppMenu for klpq etc.). But just
right-clicking and moving the mouse a little downwards is a lot easier than
dragging an icon across the screen (and finding the printer icon first)

> > - File actions (open, info, delete...) on selected items in the toolbar
> > - also toggle buttons in the toolbar for "Show Hidden", "Create Thumbs"
> 
> Hmm... I prefer to keep the toolbar small. Of course, everyone has
> different ideas about what should go on it!

Maybe integrate them into the style popup-menus or one new popup-menu for
sort-order and the above two toggles

> > - select items in filer window per range with two shift-mouse1 clicks
> 
> I think we decided that shift + drag box should select ranges...

Ooops, I must have overlooked that in the docs. Anyway, shift-click is the
expected behaviour nowadays, isn't it?

> > - right mouse button click on item selects it if no other item is
> > selected.  This prevents getting the selection in AppMenu Programs.  Any
> > other solutions?
 
> Don't use app-menus for getting the selection; make running the program grab
> the selection and *then* pop up a menu?
 
Yes, but then everybody has to programm the menu themselves. Not everybody
knows (py)gtk.


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