Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 23:39:59 +0200 From: piotr.smyrak@heron.pl To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDify Gnome - a suggestion Message-ID: <20041003213959.M90121@heron.pl> In-Reply-To: <415DB543.2070308@marcuscom.com> References: <20041001142322.M43776@heron.pl> <415DB543.2070308@marcuscom.com>
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On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 15:51:31 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote > > piotr.smyrak@heron.pl wrote: > | This is a thought that just happened to me during > roaming and experiencing my | newly built 2.8. | | Please > have a look here: | http://eko.org.pl/~smyru/shots/mime- > dialog-idea.png | | This is a dialog that assign new > application to a MIME type. It defaults to /usr/bin, | > which I find a heavy linuxism, where the apps lay together > with the base. I have no | idea how much work that would > need - but since FreeBSD is more strict and | predictable > when it comes to filesystem layout, I would like to > suggest pointing it by | default to /usr/X11R6/bin. | | > This is the location where most of the X base apps exist, > and I think it would be a | great benefit to system > knowledge agnostic users, that have no knowledge besides | > the graphical interface. | | I suppose there are some more > fields where this might be a good thing also, but it is | > the one that happened to me. > > What if we added some default bookmarks that point to X11 > Apps and Local Apps (names subject to change)? I think > this would be possible, but I haven't really investigated. > Well, I am not sure users would like this. The bookamrks space on the left is small, and f.e. I don't like to clutter it with lots of objects, because it quickly looses the character of one click access thing. If the dialog opens up by default /usr/X11R6/bin instead of /usr/bin, I think it would be enought here. Do you know with part of the code is responsible for this dialog? I would like to look at it. -- Piotr Smyrak piotr.smyrak@heron.pl
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