Re: How about News in Nautilus?

[Ryan Muldoon <rpmuldoon students wisc edu>]

It *would* make sense to re-introduce this feature into the gnome menus
though - having a "News" submenu would be an extremely useful way to
check headlines without much effort.  Clicking a link would just launch
galeon or mozilla or whatever the http url handler is configured to be. 
That way you don't have to waste time launching an app to check to see
if you want to use it.

	--Ryan

On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 14:06, bordoley msu edu wrote:
> Hi Andrea:
> 
> We decided to drop the news sidebar from nautilus awhile ago (check out the 
> archives from april and may for some references). The basic reasoning was two 
> fold as I remember:
> 
> 1. We don't currently have a good webview (gtkhtml2 doesn't really support 
> the features expected of modern web browsers and galeon2 view, based on gtk2 
> mozilla, is still alpha right now).
> 
> 2. The news sidebar was sort of inconsistent with the direction the 
> developers plan to take with nautilus. The somewhat general consensus seems 
> to be that nautilus should be a file manager/shell and not really a full 
> blown web browser (imho that is what galeon is for), so it was decided in 
> this context that the news sidebar just didn't make that much sense for 
> nautilus.
> 
> hope this answers your question.
> 
> dave
> 
> 
> 
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