Re: Launcher types

[Alex Graveley <alex ximian com>]

Hi,

Drop the dialog altogether.  Clicking "New Launcher" pops up the Run
dialog, clicking "Ok" creates the launcher which you can then rename or
set an icon for.  Or you can just drag the Run dialog's icon to
someplace to create a launcher.  Editing the launcher just brings up the
Run dialog again slightly modified ("Ok" instead of "Run").  Translators
could use a special tool to add translations.

This might be too extreme/confusing though. I guess we could do a simple
druid to wrap it up a little.

-Alex

On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 03:16, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> 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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