Re: Gnome/Nautilus extensions for OpenOffice.org

[Oliver Braun <Oliver Braun sun com>]

Hi Reinout,

Reinout van Schouwen wrote:

> Hi Oliver,
>
> On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Oliver Braun wrote:
>  
>
> > (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").
> >    
>
> I've been a long time OS/2 user, but don't vividly recall a Print context
> menu item (which is not to say it wasn't there). I *do* recall however
> that the WPS has a Printer object on the desktop where one could drag
> arbitrary files to, and the right program would be invoked in the
> background to print it. *That* is something I'd really really like to see
> in GNOME, and which - I hope - could be possible with a bit of CUPS
> integration.
>  
I am pretty sure that nearly every app that supported the d&d had also a 
print context menu  entry, but your are probably right saying that the 
d&d thing was the *real* "must have" on OS/2.

> > 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.
> >    
>
> Separate Open / Edit menu items were discussed on the before, and IIRC the
> consensus was that this isn't desirable (correct me if I'm wrong).
>
> I also think that "Open for viewing" and "Open for viewing and/or editing"
> is somewhat of an artificial separation that the user shouldn't be
> bothered with.
>
>  
I have to check the archives before I can comment on this further - I 
recently hadn't much time to follow the dicussions here briefly.

> > know from app names in the 'Open with' list which app is a viewer and
> > which app is an editor.
> >    
>
> Agreed, of course.
>
>  
>
> > At least we have user requests for it.
> >    
>
> Well, how about making 'Show' the default double-click action?
> After all that's what we do with audio files, we're not associating
> audacity (or some other editing app, whatever) as default action.
>  
But then we'll need an "edit" menu item or we would leave the user alone 
with an app in full screen mode and without any visible buttons.

Kind regards,
Oliver