Re: Improving rox's options box

Tony Houghton <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.desktop.rox.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
In <[email protected]>
"Thomas Leonard" <[email protected]> wrote:

> 2008/6/15 Lennon Cook <[email protected]>:
> [...]
> > Even better, can the pinboard be remembered from the close of last
> > session? If the user has a launcher for rox sitting somewhere, it
> > already lets them turn the pinboard on and off.
> 
> Tony, any comments?

Not really. I've pretty much ignored that bit of ROX-Session.

> > Does menus- 'Set keyboard shortcuts' really need to be there? Given
> > that its only purpose is to tell the user how to do something,
> > doesn't it really belong in the manual instead of the Options?
> 
> Sadly, no. If you put it in the manual, no-one finds it. If you put it
> as a textual in the options box, no-one finds it. Only by making it a
> clickable button is it possible to stop the emails from people asking
> how to do this.

Most session managers other than ROX-Session seem to default to having
editable menu shortcuts disabled. The dialog should at least point that
out. Or could ROX override the global setting for itself?

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TH * http://www.realh.co.uk

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