Re: simplifying the "Startup programs"

[Gregory Merchan <merchan phys lsu edu>]

On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 08:29:00PM +0100, 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?

Well, I like it. ;-)