Re: Panel UI - startmenu productivity thoughts

[Hongli Lai <hongli telekabel nl>]

On 2001.09.06 22:33:06 +0200 Dominik 'Aeneas' Schnitzer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just discovered, that in Win2K, the Folders in the startmenu in fact
> already have a function if clicked. -- Well hidden -- if you
> double-click on them the Explorer launches and the clicked Folder opens
> (and you can manage the Startmenu from there)
> 
> Currently the startmenu is managed via the gnome-menu editor. I'm
> thinking of adding a new View to Nautilus File manager (maybe even a
> gnome-vfs module - *investigating*), to have startmenumanagement in the
> filemanager too.
> On irc seth told me that just this feature is planned for Gnome 2.0 or
> the next bigger Nautilus release, but nobody is working on it yet?
> 
> If this is true and ok I'll invest my time and effort to add this View
> to Nautilus.
> 
> My question to the gui list - if this feature is already planned - are
> there already concrete thoughts how this view should look like and work
> (from the userinterface side). Otherwise I'd keep the "interface" close
> to the Explorer-Way, which already works since Windows 95 :)


Is this really such a good idea?
Normal users don't have write permission for /usr/share/gnome/apps or
/opt/gnome/foobar or whatever.
How do they add items without manually navigating to ~/.gnome/apps?