Re: Launcher types

[<bordoley msu edu>]

Just to note since its related to this, there have been a lot of complaints 
about the overall complexity of the launcher dialog, so it might be nice to 
divide it into multiple dialogs. Basically what I was thinking was one dialog 
to create application launchers and  another to create links. Seth had 
mentioned this to me in the past as well. Advantage is that we simplify the ui 
making the creation of these launchers easier.

As for the other types of .desktop files I agree with alex these should 
probably not even be in the ui.

dave

Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com> said:

> On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Eugene O'Connor wrote:
> 
> > I'm updating the User Guide and need some information about launchers
> > and launcher types. Can anyone help me out?
> > 
> > First of all, where can you have launchers on the desktop - in your
> > menus, on your panels, on the desktop background - anywhere else?
> > 
> > Secondly, I need to understand the types of launcher:
> > 
> > 1. Application (I understand this one)
> > 2. Link (http://, ftp://, what else can you enter in the command field
> > when the launcher type is link?
> 
> also e.g. file://my/mp3s or suchlike.
> 
> > 3. FSDevice (What is this? Can you give an example?)
> 
> You get one of these when nautilus mounts a Floppy or cdrom.
> 
> > 4. MimeType (How would you use this, for example?)
> > 5. Service (What is this?)
> > 6. Service Type (What is this?)
> 
> These are not launchers, but descriptions of things. I don't think we use 
> them at the moment. I think KDE uses nr 4 for its mime database.
>  
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