Re: Nautilus Sendto -- opportunities for generalisation

["W. Michael Petullo" <mike flyn org>]

>> I'd like to remark here that in my opinion, the Nautilus context menu
>> is
>> way too crowded already with >= 12 items. Having random apps add their
>> items to Naut context menus makes things even more complex, and goes
>> against the HIG[1]: "Popup menus need to be as simple as possible to
>> maximize their efficiency. Do not place more than about ten items on a
>> popup menu, and do avoid submenus."
>
> Why we doesn't open a little window with the options to 'Send to...'.
> The window (a little one) just need to have a list box with the
> registered options, each option containing an icons, a label, for start.
> And a 'Ok', and 'Cancel' button. Maybe a main label explaining the
> purpose of the window.

What does this do that is not already an ability of the Nautilus scripts
interface?  It seems that with a global scripts directory
(http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68948) and a little improvement
on the way scripts are presented would provide everything a "send to" item
would and more.

--
Mike