RE: gmc & cursors

["Fox, Kevin M" <KMFox mail bhi-erc com>]

so the code in the desktop stuff is not shared with the code in the gmc
windows?
:(

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Federico Mena Quintero [SMTP:federico@nuclecu.unam.mx]
> Sent:	Tuesday, March 30, 1999 1:55 PM
> To:	mxk@purdue.edu
> Subject:	Re: gmc & cursors
> 
> >  All right, here's one, though I'm sorry I can't provide a patch right
> >  now... If I drag a URL from netscape to the desktop, it gives me a
> >  double-clickable URL on my desktop. If I then drag that into a gmc
> >  window (like a view of my home directory), it then becomes a regular
> >  text file, and looses its double-clickable-ness. I really don't think
> >  this is quite the right behavior. It needs to keep its URL-ness no
> >  matter wherever it may roam.
> 
> This happens because of two reasons:
> 
> 	1. The file panels do not use metadata information because it
>            is really slow to use it on big directories or NFS-mounted
>            homes.
> 
> 	2. Only desktop icons know how to open URLs.
> 
> The former is more important.  Even if you enable customization of
> icons in the file panels (from the preferences dialog), they won't
> know how to open URLs.  
> 
> This inconsistency is hard to fix at this point :-(
> 
>   Federico
> 
> 
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