BSDify Gnome - a suggestion

[piotr.smyrak at heron.pl]

On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 15:51:31 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote
> 
> piotr.smyrak at heron.pl wrote:
> | This is a thought that just happened to me during 
> roaming and experiencing my | newly built 2.8. | | Please 
> have a look here: | http://eko.org.pl/~smyru/shots/mime-
> dialog-idea.png | | This is a dialog that assign new 
> application to a MIME type. It defaults to /usr/bin, | 
> which I find a heavy linuxism, where the apps lay together 
> with the base. I have no | idea how much work that would 
> need - but since FreeBSD is more strict and | predictable 
> when it comes to filesystem layout, I would like to 
> suggest pointing it by | default to /usr/X11R6/bin. | | 
> This is the location where most of the X base apps exist,
>  and I think it would be a | great benefit to system 
> knowledge agnostic users, that have no knowledge besides | 
> the graphical interface. | | I suppose there are some more 
> fields where this might be a good thing also, but it is | 
> the one that happened to me.
> 
> What if we added some default bookmarks that point to X11 
> Apps and Local Apps (names subject to change)?  I think 
> this would be possible, but I haven't really investigated.
> 

Well, I am not sure users would like this. The bookamrks space on 
the left is small, and f.e. I don't like to clutter it with lots of objects, 
because it quickly looses the character of one click access thing.

If the dialog opens up by default /usr/X11R6/bin instead of /usr/bin, 
I think it would be enought here.

Do you know with part of the code is responsible for this dialog? 
I would like to look at it.

-- 
 Piotr Smyrak
 piotr.smyrak at heron.pl