Re: MIME interface suggestions

[Sri Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

Back in the Eazel days, Nautilus had a concept of "user levels" where
one could change user levels to advanced, neophyte etc etc.  Perhaps, we
could use that idea as  way to add things to the context menu.  I mean
if people want lots of stuff in their context menu who are we to stand
in their way?  But at least wtih user levels we could still target our
main audience.

Anyways, just my two cents.

sri



On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 16:22 +0100, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote:
> A Qua, 2004-09-01 às 19:57, Chipzz escreveu:
> > On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote:
> > 
> > > A Qua, 2004-09-01 às 15:39, Jerry Haltom escreveu:
> > > > I believe the thought process goes like this:
> > > >
> > > > If the application the user wants to use is not listed in the menu, then
> > > > that application does not have a .desktop file, or it is misconfigured.
> > > > In which cases, it wouldn't appear in your application list dialog either.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I do however see a point. We have examples like ghex, which should
> > > > probably not be configured to open application/octect-stream, even though
> > > > technically they can. It would just be menu cruft. But the user might want
> > > > to open a specific file with them... so it would be good if it was in the
> > > > list.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Actually the more I think about this, I think ghex SHOULD be configured to
> > > > handle application/octect-stream, but also be marked "NotInOpenMenu".
> > > > Which is something we don't yet have.
> > >
> > >   Now that's silly.  ghex should appear in the menu for _any_ file,
> > > because every file type is a subtype of application/octet-stream.  If
> > > you don't like that, uninstall ghex and the menu entry goes away.  It's
> > > as simple as that.
> > 
> > This is just bullshit. You don't always have root access on the box you
> > work on. Think pc-rooms in a university. Someone from the cs departement
> > may need ghex, while someone from the linguistic departement may not
> > need it at all.
> 
>   The alternative being suggesting is to remove ghex from the menu even
> if it is installed, regardless of user type.  Now, which is worse: a
> menu entry appearing for users that don't need it, or the menu entry not
> appearing for users that need it?
> 
>   Sure I understand your idea, ghex users are advanced users, and
> advanced users can use the command line.  However, I think advanced
> users should be able to invoke ghex from nautilus context menu too. 
> Let's not exaggerate in our quest for UI simplicity, or we might
> alienate some users.
> 
>   Now, a dialog to select which applications appear in the context menu,
> like we used to have, would be nice.  It would be basically to just add
> a toggle column to the MIME tab in the file properties...
> 
>   Regards.
>