Re: gqview 2.0.2

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Carles Pina i Estany wrote:

> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 22:51:11 +0300
> From: Carles Pina i Estany <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Gqview-devel] gqview 2.0.2
>
>
> Hello,
>
> On Oct/17/2006, John Ellis wrote:
>
> > > I have seen that yesterday John released a new gqview version. It has
> > > catalan translation (thanks!) and it haven't my patch "Copy path" (see
> > > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=26041842&forum_id=5979

> > Mostly laziness on my part, and I can not decide exactly where in the menus
> > to put the feature. I think that most of the menus are already too long :-/

I'd love to try out some reconfigurations of the menus too.  If they were
built from an XML file (as I know some GTK apps like GIMP do, and not just
glade applications) it would be easier for users to try out different
arrangements without requiring a recompile.  I dont know if you intend to
update the menu code to a system that would allow this though (maybe you
have already, I haven't read the code recently).

> In my version I wrote next to "Copy" (Copy Path, I thought that make sense).
> Browsers user interface has something similar (Copy email address,
> compose mail) in similar way.

> I think that is a very-good-needed option but nobody in mailing list has
> said anything, so maybe is only very-good-needed for me :-)

I cannot put my finger on the problem exactly but there is something not
quite right about your suggestion and I wonder if there might be a better
way to achieve similar results and make something more useful to more
people.  Or maybe not I'm really not sure.

In your earlier mail you mention how you prefer using the shell to move
file but you like to rename them in GQView first.  Maybe you have ideas on
how moving could be improved?  (Maybe a version of GQView compiled with an
optional extra like gnomevfs might give you the SCP support you need?)

One small issue though is the use of the term "path" which is jargon and
normally the words Location or Address (and depending on the context Link)
would be used instead.  Mozilla includes "Copy Link Location" and I think
"Copy Location" would be a better choice of lable for GQView.


Sincerely

Alan Horkan

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