Re: [Usability] Is this a good idea (gnome-schedule related)

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 14:19, Philip Van Hoof wrote:

> Our question is whether or not it's a good idea to make this GtkEntry a
> GtkComboBoxEntry and let the user choose some predefined commands like
> 
> "A virusscanner"
> "Sound an alarm"
> "Start a diskcheck"

Well, the idea sounds potentially useful to me, although of course the
best people to ask would be your users.  What sort of tasks do they want
to schedule, and what do they currently do instead?

[ I don't know if you have this already, but something I'd find rather
more useful (having struggled with the scheduling feature on Windows)
would be a way to choose an application to run by its menu name rather
than its binary name... perhaps a bit like the Run Applications dialog,
except with completion working on both menu names and binary names,
rather than just binary names.  Although even cooler would be if you
could just right-click on a program in the Applications menu, and have a
"Schedule..." item right there :) ]

Cheeri,
Calum.

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