Re: 3.4 Features, final round
- From: Florian Müllner <fmuellner gnome org>
- To: Seif Lotfy <seif lotfy com>
- Cc: Frederic Peters <fpeters gnome org>, desktop-devel-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: 3.4 Features, final round
- Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 01:09:19 +0100
On lun, 2011-11-07 at 00:23 +0100, Seif Lotfy wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 12:10 AM, Florian Müllner <fmuellner gnome org>
>
> To me it means that the application is in control of what
> appears in the
> jumplist, not necessarily that it is responsible for
> specifying the
> exact set of items. So I can imagine some "gnome-recent-items"
> action
> which is translated appropriately by the shell if included in
> the .desktop file, but I would not expect anything in the
> jumplist if
> the application does not specify anything.
>
>
> However if the app doesn't specify a list why not have a fallback
> option.
> Mostly you will end up using it in cases like gedit, rhythmbox, totem,
> epiphany and event documents. In that case I suggest the usage of
> zeitgeist and not gtk.recentmanager. Since such lists are dynamic i
> don't find it appropriate to keep updating the .desktop file with
> recently/most used every time the app is used. If apps really would do
> that I would suggest them push directly into zeitgeist.
I did not suggest updating the .desktop file, I suggested "special"
actions applications could specify to request certain content, for
instance a list of recent items. (Obviously that would only be step
three, after deciding whether the feature is wanted and implementing the
basic functionality).
Florian
- References:
- 3.4 Features, final round
- Re: 3.4 Features, final round
- Re: 3.4 Features, final round
- Re: 3.4 Features, final round
- Re: 3.4 Features, final round
- Re: 3.4 Features, final round
- Re: 3.4 Features, final round
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- Re: 3.4 Features, final round
- Re: 3.4 Features, final round
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