RE: [Nautilus-list] Re: magic desktop URIs

["Ryan Muldoon" <rpmuldoon students wisc edu>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nautilus-list-admin lists eazel com
> [mailto:nautilus-list-admin lists eazel com]On Behalf Of Havoc
> Pennington
> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 11:26 AM
> To: Darin Adler
> Cc: gnome-vfs ximian com; nautilus-list eazel com; jirka 5z com
> Subject: Re: [Nautilus-list] Re: magic desktop URIs
>
>
>
> Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com> writes:
> > On Thursday, July 19, 2001, at 06:19  PM, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> >
> > >>>       preferences:  /usr/share/control-center
> > >>>       programs:     /etc/X11/applnk + /usr/share/gnome/apps
> > >>>       sysconfig:    /etc/X11/sysconfig
> > >>>       serverconfig: /etc/X11/serverconfig
> > >>>       favorites:    ~/.gnome/apps
> > >>>       starthere:    /etc/X11/starthere
> >
> > I love "preferences", "programs", and "favorites". I am not as happy
> > with the "star there" scheme, or the "syscon" and "servercon" schemes
> > that all use the "fig" protocol.
> >
> > I like Andy's suggestion of "start:" instead of "starthere:",
>
> Do you guys think the icon on the desktop, etc. should also be simply
> "Start", or change only the URI scheme?
>
I would be concerned that Microsoft has a patent or a trademark or something
on using "Start" in this context.  Has anyone looked into that?

> > but I
> > don't have a better suggestion for "sysconfig:" or "serverconfig:",
> > partly because I have no idea what you'd find in those (directories
> > full of config files to edit?).
> >
>
> These are full of desktop files. They are equivalent to
> /usr/share/control-center, but for system and server control panels
> respectively.
>
> So in sysconfig I would have desktop files for:
>
>  - date/time setup
>  - modem/ISP setup
>  - gdm configuration
>  - simple user-friendly network configuration
>
> that sort of thing, and in serverconfig:
>
>  - Apache configuration
>  - BIND configuration
>  - Sendmail configuration
>  - giant network-configuration monstrosity that handles 10 different
>    ethernet cards, firewall, and routing
>
> etc.
>
> I don't expect GNOME to actually have anything to put in serverconfig:
> by default, but it seems fine to me to have the VFS module in GNOME so
> OS vendors can put stuff there. sysconfig: would also have somewhat
> vendor-defined contents, but not entirely. e.g. I expect we'd use
> gdmconfig, but the Red Hat modem config thing.
>
> Havoc
>
>
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