RE: First xdg-utils beta release

2006-06-26 Thread Bastian, Waldo
Hi Rich, Thanks for your feedback. I'll try to incorporate it where feasible. It would be nice if you had the option of passing the body via stdin. The attach file method should let you specify the name of the attachment. This could be useful (for example) if the user has asked to attach a file

libxdg-vfs - screenshots

2006-06-26 Thread nf2
Hi, I have written a little VFS-browser demo using libxdg-vfs. There are some nice screenshots at the bottom of this page... http://www.scheinwelt.at/~norbertf/dadapt/files/xdg_utils/doc/libxdg-vfs.html It's possible to walk around the hierarchy provided by the VFS libraries (KIO and

Re: Multiple DeskTops, HiColor theme, standardized icon names, menu icons

2006-06-26 Thread Rodney Dawes
On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 23:44 -0700, James Richard Tyrer wrote: and to standardize this they would go in: $XDG_DATA_DIR/apps/app_name/icons/theme/size/type If this is not part of the standard, SMcC's posting illustrates that GNOME does not have a standard way to deal with this and

Re: Multiple DeskTops, HiColor theme, standardized icon names, menu icons

2006-06-26 Thread James Richard Tyrer
Rodney Dawes wrote: GNOME is not the only thing that doesn't have automagical lookup of app-specific icons in a private directory that mimics the layout of icon themes. GNOME simply implements the Icon Theme Specification, which clearly does not state any way to do this. KDE implements things

Re: libxdg-vfs - screenshots

2006-06-26 Thread Pat Suwalski
Dave Cridland wrote: On Mon Jun 26 14:11:57 2006, nf2 wrote: The idea behind this experiment is to align the behavior of KIO and Gnome-VFS in a common frontend API which could be used from cross-desktop applications and even file-dialogs (like GTKFileChooser). Wouldn't it be better for the

Re: [Portland] First xdg-utils beta release

2006-06-26 Thread Thiago Macieira
John Cherry wrote: Rumor has it that that the recent release of the Google Earth for Linux included pre-beta xdg_utils tools. That's no rumour :-) $ ls -l /usr/local/google-earth/linux/xdg/ total 28 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 12475 Jun 13 11:46 xdg-menu* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10832 Jun 13 11:46

Re: Multiple DeskTops, HiColor theme, standardized icon names, menu icons

2006-06-26 Thread Rodney Dawes
On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 08:41 -0700, James Richard Tyrer wrote: Yes, KDE's icon names are a mess. But, I don't know of anything that can't be fixed by renaming them all. The names aren't really the problem. Names are easily solved with symlinks and trivial patches to apps. The main issue is that

Re: Multiple DeskTops, HiColor theme, standardized icon names, menu icons

2006-06-26 Thread James Richard Tyrer
Rodney Dawes wrote: On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 08:41 -0700, James Richard Tyrer wrote: Yes, KDE's icon names are a mess. But, I don't know of anything that can't be fixed by renaming them all. The names aren't really the problem. Names are easily solved with symlinks and trivial patches to apps.

Re: libxdg-vfs - screenshots

2006-06-26 Thread Rodney Dawes
On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 21:57 +0200, nf2 wrote: The problem is, that this will only work for standard file-open/save dialogs, but a lot of applications want to customize file-dialogs with their own widgets (previews, filter options, checkboxes etc...). In this case the coupling between the

Re: libxdg-vfs - screenshots

2006-06-26 Thread nf2
Rodney Dawes wrote: On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 21:57 +0200, nf2 wrote: The problem is, that this will only work for standard file-open/save dialogs, but a lot of applications want to customize file-dialogs with their own widgets (previews, filter options, checkboxes etc...). In this case the

Re: libxdg-vfs - screenshots

2006-06-26 Thread Thiago Macieira
nf2 wrote: Hmm. I'd rather live with little inconsitencies than with fundamental problems like not beeing able to access VFS shares from applications. The GUI is meaningless at this point: if any application has access to the same view of the filesystem and virtual filesystems, they will display

Re: libxdg-vfs - screenshots

2006-06-26 Thread nf2
Thiago Macieira wrote: nf2 wrote: Hmm. I'd rather live with little inconsitencies than with fundamental problems like not beeing able to access VFS shares from applications. The GUI is meaningless at this point: if any application has access to the same view of the filesystem and

Re: libxdg-vfs - screenshots

2006-06-26 Thread Fred Drake
On 6/26/06, nf2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about those bookmarks in Gnome and KDE file-dialogs? If there is no standard, i guess an interface in libxdg-vfs would be required... There's been some discussion on using XBEL for this, and some libraries may already be doing so. I'm afraid I'm a