[328] in Athena User Interface
Re: Chooser, apparent gmc/exmh consensus
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Tibbetts)
Mon Jul 24 00:41:08 2000
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To: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
cc: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@eazel.com>, aui@MIT.EDU, tibbetts@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 23 Jul 2000 22:37:59 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 00:41:05 -0400
From: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
On 7/23 you wrote:
>
> > > So it turns out that gmc already has a built-in "program chooser." I
> > > suspect that Nautilus will give us something similar, as well. We'll
> > > have to wait and see.
> >
> > What's the "program chooser"?
>
> It's the thing you get when you need to have an "Open this file
> with..." dialog. You choose which program you want to run the file
> in. It neatly allows the user to browse the Gnome Menus (which will
> include our locker-based entries).
>
> What we would probably like to do is be able to start this dialog box
> (or something similar) from other places in Gnome-Athena, like gmenu
> and session management.
I would rephrase this to:
Gnome should probably consider something like this, in order to offer
a consistent interface for the choosing of a binary. If they did
settle on some sort of interface, then there are some places where
Athena would use it.
Much as I might like to, Athena does not have the resources to affect
a major change in the way that GNOME works. At the same time, I would
like to think that our opinion might be heard. If AUI's audience in
the outside world would like to suggest some place that such
suggestions might be heard, that would be helpful.
tibbetts
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