Re: Gnome/Nautilus extensions for OpenOffice.org

[Oliver Braun <Oliver Braun sun com>]

Hello Reinout,

Reinout van Schouwen wrote:

> hello Oliver,
>
> On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Oliver Braun wrote:
>
>  
>
> > - additional context menu entries for OpenOffice.org file type (e.g. a
> > "show" entry that opens a presentation directly in full screen mode)
> >    
>
> I am a bit concerned that when many apps start doing this, the - already
> quite long - context menu will really start to overflow. I mean, OO.o
> documents are also zipfiles, so perhaps File Roller will want to add some
> items too.
I think the number of candidates is pretty low. Usually there are three 
basic actions one can take on dynamic content: edit, view and print
(in fact on good old OS/2 a print menu item that did its work in the 
background without a window was kind of a "must have").

One could argue that 'Open' and 'Open with' should better play/show the 
dynamic content (which could be music or video as well) and there should 
be 'Edit' and 'Edit with' in the context menu, but this is a more 
radical move. I just don't think that the average user should have to 
know from app names in the 'Open with' list which app is a viewer and 
which app is an editor.

I would be happy to move to a more general concept for this in GNOME as 
soon as it is available.

> And why not have a 'Print as handouts' context menu item as
> well?
>
>  
This should probably be just an option of a print dialog launched by a 
"print" menu item.

> Is the added convenience of a 'Show' menu item so great that people will
> prefer it over activating the document and clicking the Presentation
> button? (this is what I see people do with ppt all the time.)
>  
At least we have user requests for it.

Regards,
Oliver