From: Erik H. <eri...@sl...> - 2003-12-02 09:05:42
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I'm not so sure that adding things directly to the send to menu is the best plan. Now that we can "Customize Menu", perhaps Apps should be able to specify multiple entries, and label those entries more effectively. For example, "Edit in The GIMP" and "Open in Eye of Gnome" makes a clear distinction about what each program does. Then "Customize Menu" can be used to clear out entries we don't like. -Erik --- Stephen Watson <sw...@ue...> wrote: In message <20031130174854.GA1239@Benine> Guido Schimmels <gui...@fr...> scribbled: > Am 30.11.2003 13:24:19 schrieb(en) Stephen Watson: > > > I notice it doesn't ask the user to confirm the changes. > > init_from_appinfo is meant to be called on launch everytime. > If the app gets moved, the broken link(s) will be fixed silently. > The SendTo links are created without confirmation as I can't think of a > reason why you wanted to micro-manage that. SendTo is a mechanism for > apps to advertise their capabilities and make themselves available via > a context menu. Apps you never run don't appear in the menu. But if you > use it why not have it in the menu? Because a) I only ran it once, and didn't like it, but it put itself in my menu anyway, or b) I don't want the File menu to get to big b) is the main reason I have very few of the type specific SendTo entries. Also I can see my self getting anoyed if I saw an app in the context menu I didn't want there, removed it and then found it put itself back there without permission. -- Stephen Watson Physicist Ultra Electronics Ltd - Signature Management Systems (UESMS) Tel: +44 (0)1543 878888 (switchboard) Fax: +44 (0)1543 878249 Email: wa...@ue... ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ rox-devel mailing list rox...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rox-devel _____________________________________________________________ Sluggy.Net: The Sluggy Freelance Community! |
From: Stephen W. <sw...@ue...> - 2003-12-02 13:24:24
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In message <200...@si...> Erik Harrison <eri...@sl...> scribbled: > > I'm not so sure that adding things directly to the send to menu is the > best plan. Now that we can "Customize Menu", "Customize Menu" *is* the SendTo menu. -- Stephen Watson Physicist Ultra Electronics Ltd - Signature Management Systems (UESMS) Tel: +44 (0)1543 878888 (switchboard) Fax: +44 (0)1543 878249 Email: wa...@ue... |
From: Guido S. <gui...@fr...> - 2003-12-02 16:31:22
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Am 02.12.2003 14:21:41 schrieb(en) Stephen Watson: > In message <200...@si...> > Erik Harrison <eri...@sl...> scribbled: > > > > > I'm not so sure that adding things directly to the send to menu is > the > > best plan. Now that we can "Customize Menu", > > "Customize Menu" *is* the SendTo menu. The problem with this solution is that you already have to know what each application does. And you really don't want to do that for the myriads of image and audio types each one by one. And Customize Menu doesn't show how to add apps for a whole category at once. A possible improvement could be that ROX-Filer does a search over APPDIRPATH, scans for CanRun items and collects matching appdirs in a list. D&Ding from this list into the SendTo window would create a symlink to the app. |