Re: libgnomesu [was Re: Proposed modules: my consensus so far]



Qui, 2004-11-25 às 12:12 +0000, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro escreveu:
> Qui, 2004-11-25 às 10:09 +0100, Alexander Larsson escreveu:
> > On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 21:26 +0100, Reinout van Schouwen wrote:
> > > On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Hongli Lai wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 3. libgnomesu adds a context menu to Nautilus, which makes it possible to 
> > > > open a folder as root, so you can edit other users' files or system files.
> > > 
> > > Since the default folder context menu in Nautilus already has more than 
> > > the HIG recommended maximum number of items, and this feature is not 
> > > something that is useful in the "common case", I request the extra 
> > > context menu item (I think you meant to say item?) is disabled by 
> > > default.
> > 
> > Not only does it have a lot, we've removed (sometimes useful) stuff from
> > it already trying to get it to a useful size. Please be very very very
> > cautious in adding items to the menu that are not just for some specific
> > type of file.
> 
>   IMHO, the right way to do this would be to have a context menu item in
> all application launchers, with "Run as different user...".  I have seen
> it somewhere, maybe WinXP.. :P

  Speaking of this, launcher's context menu are missing the default
action "Launch" as first item in the context menu, which HIG recommends.

  Sorry, I should be filing bug reports or preparing patches, but I
should also be working right now... :P

> 
> This would make the solution work for all applications and not just
> nautilus.
> 
>   Regards.
> 
> > 
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