Re: Menu customization

["Ben 'The Con Man' Kahn" <xkahn cybersites com>]

On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, John R Sheets wrote:

> >         How many of you knew that MS Word supports that feature?  Hmm?
> > Ever go looking?  It does.  I deleted the Help menu once...  They actually
> > have a nice way of dealing with it.
> 
> Come to think of it, Visual C++ has that too.  I think it's
> exposed by MS's VBA (Visual Basic for Applications), which is
> mostly a macro-writing language, as I understand it.  Not
> something that'd be worth the hassle to do for GNOME.  Exposing
> every possible menu command for every GNOME app is waaaaay too
> much, a little on the order of madness.
> 
> What I was actually thinking is a little more generic.  Through
> simple CLI, or more complex CORBA, "User" menu items could
> conceivably operate on/with virtually any application or script. 
> Here's a better example with the HTML editor.  You've finished
> updating a web page in your favorite word processor.  You click
> on "User->Web Publish" which FTP's the current document to your
> remote web site.  This could be done with a shell script, or
> through a CORBA link to your favorite FTP program.  Or a
> combination of both, I guess.

	Hey!  Good idea.  If there is a way to run a GNOME application
through a TEXT BASED script, then that means we get all the advantages of
years of research into CLI while still having a nice GUI!  Man...  Sounds
like it'd be tricky to program...
						-Ben

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