Re: Re: GPE/matchb

On Mon, 2002-09-02 at 22:24, Moray Allan wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-09-02 at 13:17, Luis Oliveira wrote:
> > > The best I've seen so far was a WinCE machine with a 'Running' tab -
> > > maybe appmgr could query for running windows & appicons and put them all
> > > in a tab...?
> >
> > Hmm... yet another tab?
>
> We are getting too many tabs, but:
>
> - the last time I checked (not in the last few days) there were still a
> few programs which invented their own sections not in the Familiar menu
> policy;
I don't have any of them installed, so I'm OK :D

> - I suspect that the 'all' tab shouldn't really be there - something's
> wrong if you need two different views of the same relatively small
> number of programs on a heldheld;
You can turn it off... according to the code (and my bad memory) it's
off by default anyway.

> - it might be better (and satisfy the people who have an 'all' tab just
> now?) if gpe-appmgr could (configurably) collapse sections together, so
> that we could end up with say: 'Active tasks / Applications /
> Configuration / Documents';
I could have it as an option - "All tab, Seperate sections, Both"?

> - since I'd still also like us to have a recent files tab: we can
> presumably include something to achieve this in the GPE libraries, but
> see http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/recent-file-spec.html .
It could be done as a plugin; it'd probably be best to do it that way.
The plugin architecture is actually finished except for a way to
actually start them :)

> Alternatively, if people don't like the idea of the recent files tab in
> gpe-appmgr, it could be a special view when you start up the file
> manager, but I think it would be useful enough of the time that it would
> be good if we could make it very easily available. The idea being, that
> to get back to that text file you were edit / play that memo you
> recorded recently / whatever, you just go to that tab and click on the
> appropriate icon, rather than having to remember where you saved it.
IMHO it should be in appmgr.

> Moray
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