Re: simplifying the "Startup programs"



On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 20:40, Bruce Robert Pocock wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 15:29, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > Heya,
> > 
> > I found the UI for the startup programs to suck quite a bit. The startup
> > programs tab in the "Session properties" is too complicated for its own
> > good. There are 2 parts in the changes I propose:
> > 
> > 1) Backend: this is the code in g-s-m. It would launch every script,
> > executable and .desktop file in (for example) ~/.gnome2/startup-files/
> > 
> > 2) UI: Remove the "Startup Programs" tab from the properties, and add a
> > "Open Startup Items Folder" button in the Options tab, which would
> > launch nautilus in that directory.
> > 
> > So, people would just dump their scripts, links and .desktop files in
> > that directory. This equivalent to Windows' and MacOS' startup folder.
> > 
> > Opinions?
> > 
> UI-wise, sounds great - but - 
> 
> Putting on a System V hat for a second -- how to guarantee ordering?
> Numbered prefixes?

It doesn't. It's for gnome-session, not for the system startup.

-- 
/Bastien Nocera
http://hadess.net

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