Re: [Nautilus-list] Re: [gnome-love] GNOME user environment brainstorming

[Glynn Foster <glynn foster sun com>]

"rpmuldoon students wisc edu" wrote:
> 3. "Favorites" should allow applications as well as documents/urls.
> Web pages and such should be treated on par with applications.

I'm not a big fan of the "Favorites" [yeesh, someone tell these
Americans 
how to spell :P] menu...and from what I understand talking to George
about 
the new menu stuff, this could be eliminated, or at least [which I think
is 
a better option] be replaced by 'My Documents' or 'My Favorite
Documents' 
[or some sort of other variation] which contains docs, bookmarks, news
items 
etc...
I think duplicating launchers to apps in there is a bit pointless...I
know 
I would never use it anyway....and would far prefer putting the launcher 
either on the panel or in it's proper position in the menus.

> Also, with gconf-based preferences, something that would *totally* kick 
> ass is some means of doing roaming preferences.  So, no matter where I log 
> on to a gnome computer, I can download my gconf settings for how my desktop 
> should behave.  That would simply be unbelievably cool.  It would probably 
> be at least half of a solution for making locked down configurations.

Oh, this would be totally cool and would make the system administrators
life a 
piece of cake if all desktop preferences could have the option of -

 a) getting configuration from a single source  
 b) have the option of being locked down [ie. non-configurable]

I'm not totally sure with the idea that this is a styleguide
decision?...but 
what work needs to be done for this to be thought about seriously and
not 
thrown on the blue sky wishlist? - I think it's important.

                        See ya,
                                Glynn ;)

/me spell checks for the third time before sending :/