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Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 09:31, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
> 
>>I've been rather bothered by what I perceive to be a deficiency in
>>GNOME's handling of "launchers".  Not sure if this is attributable to
>>metacity or nautilus or both (I'd be interested to know which).
>>
>>When creating a new launcher, a rich set of options are available.  But
>>bringing up the properties for an existing launcher, the user is
>>presented with a much more restricted functionality, preventing the
>>easy modification of certain properties.
>>
>>I'm wondering what the rationale is for this, whether it's intentional
>>or not, and whether or not we may see some enhancement of the launcher
>>properties dialog in the future.
> 
> 
> Specifically, what properties are missing in edit mode that are there
> when creating a new launcher?  Both of my screens are identical.

same thing here - guessing Conrad mean the following:
create a launcher on the desktop and then try to change the properties.

franz.


> 
> Joe
> 
> 
>>Thanks.