Am Samstag, den 26.03.2005, 00:37 +0100 schrieb Martin Ejdestig: > In Calum's design proposals, your first GME release and early version of > my own unreleased (and will probably stay so since you beat me to it :-) > menu editor (heavily based on Calum's design) there was no "delete > application" button. Monitoring if the exe of applications dropped in > the window is removed and then remove the entry would be a neat way to > avoid adding one.
What if a user just mistyped the name of his application and wants to change it? I think modification/removal of existing entries should be possible. In a private correspondence with Calum he suggested to add the remove button at some point and suggested to add a possibility to set application icons from files or images for a particular menu entry by dragging it onto them. I think this sounds very nice, I just have to accustom to the (in this respect a bit weird) GtkTreeView API that allows to add image drop targets. On a sidenote: I'm very uncomfortable with the current icon choosing solutions: The upstream file chooser is an UI nightmare and EggIconChooser is broken, I'm getting warnings like "`default-size-changed' is invalid for instance `0x100944d0'" [*]. > > People who don't use packaging systems to install apps have been and are > > still on their own. > > I think we'll see more and more _end user_ binary only LSB, Mono, Java, > Python, ... apps not available as a package for every distro in the > world as Linux on the desktop grows. Maybe; but don't we only care for the 95% of the users who use Ubuntu, Debian, RH, SuSE or Mandrake, all distros with excellent packaging; there have been some attempts to solve installation of user-specific applications, and they probably all involve installing applications into ~/.local/share/applications, but that's not our problem, really :). [*] James? :) -- Christian Neumair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
