Re: [gnome-love] GNOME user environment brainstorming

[Matthew Walton <mxw00u Cs Nott AC UK>]

Thomas Broyer wrote:

> > One question is whether you can edit Start Here like a normal folder;
>
> I would say no.
Not even adding things to it? I'd love to be able to do that to My 
Computer in Windows. Oh well, I suppose I could always hack it so I 
could add stuff to it if it ends up read-only... :-)

> > - desktop is for:
> >    - user shortcuts to programs, etc.
> >    - showing removable devices
> >    - Trash, Home, Start Here icons
>
> I personnaly do not use the desktop, so I think Trash and Start Here at
> least should be available (if the user wants it) in the panel.
> However, even if they are it's likely that I won't use them, so don't give
> much importance to what I think ;o)
Start Here yes, Trash no. I don't know why people seem to think 
Trashcans are so important... okay, so they provide the opportunity for 
some amusing graphics, but apart from that... why? Or am I rare in 
hardly ever mistakenly deleting anything?

> What I like in Windows is my mouse middle button does a double click, and
> this allows me to select an icon with the left button and
> open/activate/etc. it with the middle button.
> Maybe all icons (wherever they are: desktop, Nautilus, open/save as icon
> list) should have this behaviour...
The problem there being that people with two-button mice have to press 
both buttons at once to get a middle-click. This would, I think, have to 
be customisable. It also doesn't 'fit'... better to have switchable 
single/double click... to my mind, double-click on icons on the desktop 
and in folder views makes perfect sense even with single-click panel 
launchers, because I think of the panel launchers as buttons.

> > - URL handlers - should die, replaced by File Types
>
> Not sure to understand...
> How will I configure my MUA answering for mailto: URLs, or my newsreader
> for news: and nntp: URLs?
> I like to have distinct apps for distinct things: I browse FTP with gFTP,
> HTTP with a web browser, etc. Will this still be possible?
* nods * URLs and MIME types aren't the same thing... or are they?