Re: Drag & Drop Functionality

[George <jirka 5z com>]

On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 01:20:26PM -0800, Michael Hall wrote:
>   I don't want to get into a 'this should do this because that does' but
> this application manager thing seems to remind me a lot of OS/2 and its
> desktop manager (pmshell). I've personally never (except for a real old
> 3.0) run any Miscrosoft OS's and went the OS/2 route years ago and still
> have a box up for my BBS. 
>   I definitely agree with Jason on 'menus' (yuck) and liked the OS/2
> idea of OS/2s objects with icons, folders, etc. that you could drag
> and drop data (or whatever) files on and the app would just open up
> and handle them. I also had some 'do nothing by themselves' type icons
> but when you dropped a file on them one would strip out html tags
> another would parse/display a log file, etc.
>   Anything like this being put in GNOME would definitely get my vote :-)

why not open up /usr/local/share/apps in gmc ... I think gmc now supports
.desktop's as launchers ... so you should get just what you need .... and for
your "personal" menu ... you can just point it to ~/.gnome/apps ... 

George

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