Re: Launcher types

[<bordoley msu edu>]

for application launchers I completely agree with this along with the 
necessary ui tweeks that may be necessary. We should also have a way to create 
links to locations as well, but I would like to think about that a little more 
before commenting very much.

dave

Alex Graveley <alex ximian com> said:

> 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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