Re: A Few Ideas

[Marcus Brubaker <spoon elpaso net>]

> I've been running GNOME 0.20 on Red Hat Linux 5.1 for
> over a month, and I came up with some ideas, listed below.

You should really try to upgrade to 0.27 for one...

> 1.  Add the ability to run programs as processes
>     under other user names, like "root" from another
>     account.  A right-button click over a program
>     icon could bring up dialog to specify the user
>     and password.

An interesting idea.  This could be useful at times, but I, personally,
would just as well su from an Eterm and run my program.

> 3.  A voice synthesizer-to-GNOME connection can
>     let GNOME and applications "speak" messages
>     and alerts.

Unless you are dealing with the blind, or vision impaired, I personally
just find this to be bloat.

> 4.  Main Menu configuration can show an icon palette
>     of available programs found in $PATH.  The user
>     can then drag and drop programs to the desired
>     location in the Main Menu.

Again, personally I just think this would be bloat.  I think if you really
need to know what programs you have installed simply do a rpm -qal | grep
bin | more and look for yourself.  Or just keep track of things.  Chances
are if you don't already know you have something on your system, you don't
really need it.

> 5.  Cute: The database of CD titles and song names (in
>     CDDB) for CD Player might include the lyrics
>     to the songs.  The words can then be displayed
>     with the music that's playing.

A nice idea, but unfortunately impossible as I don't think CDDB includes
song lyrics.  Not to mention that syncing the words to the music would be
extremely difficult, if not impossible.

> 
> Jeff
> 
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Regards,
Marcus Brubaker
spoon@elpaso.net

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