Re: suggestions (to make gnome the no1 desktop)

[Luke <squizma yahoo com>]

On Sat, 08 Jul 2000, Georgios Rizell Dimitroglou wrote:
> Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 20:14:48 +0200
> To: gnome-list@gnome.org
> From: Georgios Rizell Dimitroglou <grd@algonet.se>
> Subject: suggestions (to make gnome the no1 desktop)
> 
> Hi,
> I'm not a list member, and I don't have much knowledge of what the
> future plan for gnome is. But anyway, here's my suggestions/requests:
> 
> 1) A clipboard server. This is something every unix is missing. The
> clipboard server should also manage dragging  and dropping. For example:
> if one drags an address item from the addressbook to an texteditor, the
> clipboard server should check what the address-app is able to deliver,
> and then what the notepad is able to recieve. In this case the only
> common data-type would be normal text, so the server would transfer a
> text object. If you'd drag a piece from a spreadsheet to a wordprocessor
> the user would have too choose between transfering data as an image or
> just as text (if both apps is capable of sending/recieving image and
> text data .. that is).
 
> 2) Improved save/open boxes. They don't look very nice right now, and
> many lack the ability to do basic filemanaging

dam right, i hate the way they look right now. and when you a name typed
in and then change to a different directory the name get over ridded by the
dir,
then disapears, dam anonying!
 
> 3) Better filetype handling by GMC. Instead of just a filetype-database,
> the filetypes should be handleded by a filetypedatabase combined with an
> application database. The filetype database provides information about
> available filetypes and how to recognize them while the application
> database provides information aboit available applications and what
> filetypes they can read (text,image,sound, or whatever). When the user
> right-clicks a file, let's say an image, an 'Open' meny would contain
> all the applications able to open this file (in this case, ElectricEyes,
> Gimp, Netscape, etc). I think every user have got several apps for every
> filetype.
 
> 4) All dialogs (especially lists, which tend to be long) should be
> accessed more easily with only keyboard. If one presses 'z' in a
> listbox, the listbox would scroll to the first item beginning with z.

yes found that really anonying, but that just coz i was used to it in
windows,
i am now use to the gtk way but it still would be nice.

> 5) If you enter a path in the Run.. dialog, GMC would open a new window
> with that path, if you type a file, the default-application should be
> launched with that file.

sounds good as well, just hope nautilus isnt THAT long off :)

> Hope you'll find my thoughts interesting. :-)
> 
> Thanks for a nice desktop,anyway.
> Regards,
> Georgios
> 
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