Re: Regarding Nautilus scripts

[Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>]

There are 2 possible justifications for "Scripts" as the string.

One is that people have to write them for their site-specific actions.
If they have any installed, they are generally a unix guru who knows
what they are.

The second is that "Actions" can mean anything. Cut, copy and paste are
also actions. Scripts at least tells you _something_ about the submenu,
even if it does disclose an implementation detail.

Not that these are right, but it's the other side of the argument.

On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 17:33, nestor d v wrote:
> I think nautilus scripts should be called Actions in the dialog.
> Scripts is a unix word, in the real world a script is usually understood
> as something written, a film script.
> What a script really do is apply an action to the selected file/s so
> Actions should be the name.
> Also, as many others had already said if there were a default set of
> Scripts/Actions, people would enjoy and value more Nautilus.
> Yours:
> Nestor Diaz
> 
> El mié, 25 de 06 de 2003 a las 23:57, Bill Haneman escribió:
> > On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 20:20, Mark Roach wrote:
> > ...
> > > I agree that it would be very cool if you could pass back a "selection"
> > > to nautilus or even simple commands like copy/paste and I think someone
> > > mentioned in the past that atk would somehow make that possible.
> > 
> > at-spi, actually.
> > 
> > Agreed, this has been an interesting (if somewhat tiring) thread.
> > Maybe what we *really* need is a document that makes the simplicity
> > of the existing APIs clear, i.e. makes them look easy...
> > 
> > -Bill
> > 
> > > Anyhow, thanks for the interesting discussion.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > -Mark Roach
> > > 
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