On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 23:26, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > Hi Bastien, > > On 16 Jul 2002, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > > Heya, > > > > I found the UI for the startup programs to suck quite a bit. The startup > > programs tab in the "Session properties" is too complicated for its own > > good. There are 2 parts in the changes I propose: > > > > 1) Backend: this is the code in g-s-m. It would launch every script, > > executable and .desktop file in (for example) ~/.gnome2/startup-files/ > > > > 2) UI: Remove the "Startup Programs" tab from the properties, and add a > > "Open Startup Items Folder" button in the Options tab, which would > > launch nautilus in that directory. > > > > So, people would just dump their scripts, links and .desktop files in > > that directory. This equivalent to Windows' and MacOS' startup folder. > > Sounds like a nice idea. Obviously this will won't go into the > 2.0.x stream though. > > If you go about implementing this, please try and retain > support for lauching whatever is in ~/.gnome2/session-manual as well. Should I keep the UI for it then, or should I plain remove the UI, and get g-s-m to automatically convert the stuff in session-manuel to, say, .desktop files and put them in the right place ? Otherwise users will get stuff started, with no UI to modify it. Cheers -- /Bastien Nocera http://hadess.net
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