[rox-devel] Now that 1.2.0 is out ... :-)

[Wilbert B. <wi...@os...>]

Hi all,

Now that the great 1.2.0 release is out I have some ideas for future
improvement.  Feel free to ignore anything, but maybe there are some
nice possibilities.

1. MIME-type sensitive Send To menu.

   This could be implemented using subdirectories in Send To folder for
   the MIME-type prefix, like Choices/SendTo/text/ ,
   Choices/SendTo/image/ etc.

   The sendto menu for a particular file could display these first, and
   then after a separator the generic SendTo items that are in the main
   SendTo directory.

   Eventually the other SendTo items (that reside in other
   subdirectories) could be made available in a  submenu entry 'Other'
   which displays all the other entries in the other subdirectories of
   the SendTo folder.

   Example: Open the Send To menu for a file penguin.gif:
   
   o Gimp                     (e.g. apps that reside in image/ subdir)
   o XV
   o gif2ps
   --------
   o Printer                  (apps that are in main SendTo dir)
   o Print Preview
   o Printer (2pps)
   o gzip
   o gunzip
   --------
   o Other     ->  o OpenOffice     (apps in other subdirectories)
   --------        o Galeon
   o Customize     o OggEnc
                  
   It would be nice that the items in the SendTo menu were sorted
   somehow.

   Eventually the subdirs could be nested, for individual mimetypes,
   like image/gif/gif2png or application/vnd.ms-excel/Gnumeric

   Thinking further a merge with the normal startaction mechanism might
   be possible.



2. Startaction adjustable for individual files (like icons are settable
   for individual files)

   eg: Addresses.xml opens in Addressbook application, while other XML
   files just open in rxvt -e less or gview.

   So we get a globactions or globtypes file next to the globicons file
   in Choices/ROX-Filer.

   A variant of this might be forcing the MIME-type of an individual
   file.

   
   
3. Better internationalisation of manual.  Currently 'Help' opens a dir
   named Help in the appdir. But it would be nice if it could open a
   subdir named after the current locale by default.

   E.g. I (dutch user) click Help in ROX, a directory opens with files
   LEESMIJ, Handleiding.html

   Much friendlier than having to scan a directory with many files in
   different languages.


That's what I could think of.  (I almost don't use pinboard, panel and
panelapps).  I am thinking of a nice way to create appdirs for already
installed apps.  I'll make al my future apps AppDir-enabled! (with a
--prefix=/usr --with-appdir all files should be installed under
/usr/apps/<appname>.)

Sorry for sending no patches, but I'll try to make some time to craft a
nice Dutch manual :)

best regards,

-- 
Wilbert Berendsen (http://www.xs4all.nl/~wbsoft/)