On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 22:58 +0200, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: > Le mardi 10 mai 2011 à 19:13 +0100, Bastien Nocera a écrit : > > > So, what do you think? The patches for apps should be pretty small, and > > > they really provide much better circulation within your files. > > > > And applications that can "send out" files, could also add a little menu > > item to send it out using nautilus-sendto (the API there being > > "nautilus-sendto filename"). Evolution, Totem, Rhythmbox and a number of > > others allow you to do that. > Couldn't there be a common menu in the Shell that would work like the > application menu, but for documents? I think it would be a real benefit > to know that in every app you use, you're able to perform common actions > on the opened file, without thinking "where's that button/menu again? > what app am I using?". > > As a rough sketch, we have three items, the two latter being menus: > [Activities] [Application name:] [Document name] > > The Document menu would only be shown when the current window exports > some hint about the document it's currently editing, e.g. by a X > property on the window, which would be made easy via a simple GTK+ > function. (AFAIK Zeitgeit wouldn't work because it doesn't know about > the window, only about the application, which is needed for > multi-instance apps.) > > Does that sound completely mad? ;-)
The shell menu is per-application. And that's not where the document lives. I think that such functionality should live next to the "Save" menu items because that's where you'd look. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list