Re: gqview 2.0.2

Alan Horkan 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).

Within the code the main menu layout is defined by an xml string (see 
menu_ui_description in layout_util.c). But using an external xml file would 
not be my choice as I tend to dislike applications that break because some 
odd file is not available or in the wrong place (App says 'sorry, no menu 
for you' or worse crashes/aborts without reason).

> 
>> 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.

GQview can currently pass the file path as a string to the shell through 
drag and drop. Works for me with gnome-terminal (uses the text version, so 
no proper filename quoting - maybe GQview should be quoting the plain text 
file list?) and works with konsole (kde terminal) especially well by 
popping up a menu to select what you want to do with the files, konsole 
uses the file uri list so that it can quote the filenames for you.

For xterm or any terminal that is not drag and drop aware the current 
GQview is useless, so the feature can fill a void.

> 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?)

Or allow editor commands to prompt for 1 or 2 input strings before running 
the command, as long as the command does not have to be interactive. There 
are ways to configure scp to not interactively request a password.

Greetings,
John

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John Ellis <[email protected]>

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