Re: [gnome-love] An idea about new icon in gnome

["Michel Salim" <michel salim gmail com>]

Hi Marco,

On 11/10/06, Marco A. <linediconsine gmail com> wrote:
> Think about the icon not like a link but like a script
<snip />
> For this sample we think that we are working in a Debian based(ubuntu)
> system and the icon rapresent Inkscape (a free vector graphics program)
>
> The user found this icon for sampe in a cd , and move the icon in the
> Desktop,
>
> This action make esecute the script
> move(CD,Desktop)
> the script in this case say
> $ sudo apt-get install inkscape
<snip />
> I know that this is not a really EUREKA but I think that can work really
> smooth.....or not ?
> What do you think about?

That sounds interesting. The 'install' part is not really required,
though. AFAIK Nautilus (and probably other desktop file managers too)
already does the right thing if you double-click on an RPM/Deb file.

Supporting removal will be neat. If .desktop files have a
RemoveCommand field this would be doable. As far as the user is
concerned, this would make GUI application install/removal   like in
RiscOS/ROX/NeXTSTEP/OS X's AppDir concept, where the thing that looks
like an icon is really a folder containing all your application files,
so you are really copying and deleting the entire application.

>


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