[Syllable-developer] Re: Launcher++ / Super Launcher

[Kaj de V. <syl...@fr...>]

John, your Super Launcher and decorator look great. Very clean and 
attractive.

However, personally I would like to see a desktop more like the old 
RiscOS, which has a modern incarnation in the ROX desktop for Unix:
http://rox.sourceforge.net/
I don't mean the looks, but the organization. The problem with the "start 
menu" style is that it was introduced because applications in Windows and 
Unix are installed in fixed places. To order your apps to your liking, a 
menu like this is needed. Currently, the situation in Syllable is similar, 
but native Syllable apps will be position-independent like on RiscOS and 
can be moved around the file system. Thus you can order your apps in a 
file window and start them from there. An extra menu structure is not 
needed. It could still be added, but this would be optional. In 
ROX/RiscOS, this would be an applet that you could drag to your panel.

The other important characteristic of ROX/RiscOS is that you can drag and 
drop just about anything, which is the equivalent of Unix shell pipimg. 
For example, the Save File dialog is a box with an icon representing the 
output that you can drop in the filesystem. To prepare a presentation, 
compress it, and take it with you on a floppy, you would push Save in your 
presentation app, then drag the Save File icon on the icon of your 
archiver program (probably on your panel). The archiver would pop up a new 
Save dialog, and you would drag the icon of the compressed output onto the 
icon of your floppy drive.

Have the various people working on the desktop considered this 
functionality?

Kaj

----- Message from John Aspras <ims...@ya...> on Mon, 4 Nov 2002 
05:16:47 -0800 (PST) -----
To:
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Subject:
[Syllable-developer] Launcher++ / Super Launcher
Hi all i wanted to ask if Launcher+ is a subject to change if anything 
better comes
along. i am asking this in order to continue programming for 
AtheOS/Syllable.
Here is what i think the launcher should look like 
http://geocities.com/imsniper
im also asking this because some things must be added to appserver in 
order to get notifications from it. Please inform me if these changes 
could be Considered.