On 23/05/2016 11:31 μμ, Edmond Orignac wrote:
>
> On 23/05/2016 08:08, Antonis Tsolomitis wrote:
>> I think it is useful to have a public Wish List.
>>
>> So I put here some wishes adding two issues (item 4 and 5) to my
>> previous list.
>>
>> 1. Modern font handling with full unicode support (now based on old xorg
>> mechanism)
>>
>> 2. A mixer with volume control docked in the panel
>> (now one may use pavucontrol. This is also absolutely necessary
>> because it is not trivial without some tool,
>> such as pavucontrol, to
>> select microphone for communications (eg Skype); modern hardware
>> has typically two
>> microphones, one next to camera and a mic-in)
>>
>> 3. An easy way to easily select/modify/display keyboard state (now one
>> may use XXkb).
>>
>> 4. Add "multiple action support" and "default action" to the
>> FileManager. Right click on an item must provide an
>> "Open With" submenu to facilitate fast switch of the app that opens the
>> file. For example,
>> a pdf may Open with a default action (say acroread) but may also Open
>> with xpdf/okular/evince
>> IF these actions are installed as CDE actions. So I am not talking about
>> parsing the xdg menus
>> which people my not like. At least parse the installed CDE actions.
> I believe you can already have multiple actions for PDF files in the
> current CDE. You have to create a file PDF.dt in the
> /etc/dt/appconfig/types/ directory. In that file, first, you define the
> PDF data type with:
>
> DATA_ATTRIBUTES PDF
> {
> ACTIONS Open,View
> ICON pdf
> NAME_TEMPLATE %s.pdf
> MIME_TYPE application/pdf
> DESCRIPTION This is a file containing data in the Portable
> Document \
> format. Its data type is named PDF. PDF files
> have \
> names ending with '.pdf' or '.PDF'.
> TYPE_LABEL PDF
> }
>
> DATA_CRITERIA PDF1
> {
> DATA_ATTRIBUTES_NAME PDF
> MODE f
> NAME_PATTERN *.[Pp][Dd][Ff]
> }
>
> Then, you define the actions Acroread and XPdf
>
> ACTION Acroread
> {
> LABEL Acroread
> TYPE COMMAND
> EXEC_STRING /usr/bin/acroread %Arg_1%
> ICON pdf
> WINDOW_TYPE NO_STDIO
> DESCRIPTION Acrobat Reader for Portable Document Format
> }
>
> ACTION XPdf
> {
> LABEL XPdf
> TYPE COMMAND
> EXEC_STRING /usr/bin/xpdf %Arg_1%
> ICON XPdf
> WINDOW_TYPE NO_STDIO
> DESCRIPTION Simple PDF viewer
> }
>
> Finally, you define the Open and View operations with:
>
> ACTION Open
> {
> ARG_TYPE PDF
> TYPE MAP
> MAP_ACTION Acroread
> LABEL Open with Reader
> }
>
>
> ACTION View
> {
> ARG_TYPE PDF
> TYPE MAP
> MAP_ACTION XPdf
> LABEL Open with XPdf
> }
>
> After you log in, you should see the two options Open with Reader and
> Open with XPdf in the right click menu. The default action is defined as
> Open with Reader.
>
> The problem is that if users want to change the default action, they
> will need to copy the PDF.dt file in their personal .dt/types/ directory
> and edit the order of the Actions in the DATA_ATTRIBUTES definition. If
> they want to add evince, they will need to create the Evince action
> following the XPdf template, and add an extra action in the DATA
> ATTRIBUTES definition. After that, they will need to reload the actions
> from the desktop tools menu. A tutorial could make those changes
> relatively easy.
>
> What you want seems to be the ability to edit the actions defined in
> .dt/types/ and to reload these actions directly from the file manager.
>
> I am a bit worried that this would require to change the CDE approach of
> separating "criterion for determining filetype" from "applications to
> open given filetype" and of allowing multiple configuration files
> in types/ directories and to use instead a single file in which
> criterion for filetype and applications to open filetype and preferred
> application are defined in a single entry.
>
>> 5. Fix the FileManager to scroll with the mouse wheel when the mouse is
>> inside the window
>> (now it scrolls only when the mouse is above the scrollbar).
>>
>> 6. An easy way to theme gtk2 and gtk3 apps to match CDE themes (this
>> includes major apps such as
>> firefox, thunderbird, LibreOffice, inkscape etc) (this can be extra
>> independent code). Number 2 above
>> can be partly bypassed if one manages to theme pavucontrol; but the
>> docked volume control is needed.
>>
>> Antonis.
>>
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Thanks Edmond. I did not know this possibility.
I will study your example, try to use it and remove it from my wish list.
thanks again,
Antonis.
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