RE: [Nautilus-list] ~/Nautilus

[Ben FrantzDale <bfrantzdale hmc edu>]

On 11 Jul 2001 11:10:35 -0500, Ryan Muldoon wrote:
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> > [mailto:nautilus-list-admin lists eazel com]On Behalf Of Havoc
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> > Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 10:25 AM
> > To: Remi Cohen-Scali
> > Cc: Darin Adler; nautilus-list eazel com
> > Subject: Re: [Nautilus-list] ~/Nautilus
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> > Remi Cohen-Scali <Remi Cohen-Scali france sun com> writes:
> > > I'am just wondering about where is going to land the hardware view
> > > link ? In .gnome-desktop ?
> > >
> >
> > If we keep it, it belongs in starthere: probably.
> >
> > For Red Hat we just deleted it and replaced it with a gnome-python
> > application jrb wrote that reads the Kudzu hardware information.
> > We may put a link to that app in starthere:
> >
> > Our feeling was that the current hardware view isn't too useful and
> > seems kind of strange (it _really_ feels like you should be able to
> > click the icons). We couldn't figure out what should happen when you
> > click the icons though, and it seemed like the view would inherently
> > be weird anyway because the icons wouldn't behave like normal Nautilus
> > icons.
> >
> I agree that the current hardware view is kind of pointless.
> What *could* be cool is if they were "smart" icons that Andy Hertzfeld (I
> apologize if I got the last name wrong) was working on a few months ago.
> Where the icons were information containers - so a printer icon could have
> information on the print queue, a web page link could have the RSS feed,
> etc.  You could do useful things with the hardware view then - the cpu icon
> could be a cpu monitor.  Clicking it could launch Procman.  The memory icon
> could show memory load (clicking on it could also launch procman).  Disk
> icons could show how full they are....things like that.  Clicking on them
> should launch a system management or configuration utility that is related
> to that piece of hardware.  It could be useful if it were meaningfully mixed
> with the gnome control center.
> 
>       --Ryan


I agree with Ryan here. Along those lines, I've thought it would be
consistent to have the hardware view be what you got when you look in
/proc. It could use smart icons as Ryan describes to view files like
/proc/cpuinfo or /proc/[PID].

Of course /proc is different on different systems so that might lead to
problems. It just seems like a hardware view there would compliment the
existing system nicely.

--Ben

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