Meta-action facilities

Roberto C. Morano rcmorano at emergya.es
Tue Aug 11 05:22:08 PDT 2009


David Faure escribió:
> On Sunday 09 August 2009, Lucian Carleti wrote:
>   
>> I have a idea about file managers like nautilus or dolphin.
>>
>> OpenOffice have a interesting action to change options while you click in
>> different objects.For example , when you click on a  table ,openoffice shows
>> a new toolbar related with table facilities.
>>
>> I think, it 's a good idea to implement this in file managers.For example
>> when a user click on a mpeg file associed with video lan  , nautilus show a
>> toolbar with mpeg related options of videolan. .
>>     
>
> This is the wrong list for such suggestions, here we discuss shared standards,
> not GUI improvements. Please use the bug/feature tracker of the file
> manager you're interested in.
>   

I think he suggested this in this list because the implementation would 
need some kind of shared mime-type/actions-able-to-be-performed db used 
by every desktop and maybe a new field on .desktop files.

I think it could be a good idea :]

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