On Monday 26 Jul 2004 10:52 am, Guillaume Laurent wrote: > Chris Cannam wrote: > > > >I very much don't. Opening demo files is hardly a vital everyday > >function demanding a top-level space on the File menu. > > It's still not a hindrance to have it there.
But it would make for a very ill balanced menu. From the point of view of a regular user, I think it would be rather an affront for it to be easier and more obvious how to get to the crappy RG demo files than how to get to your own compositions. I think the demo thing has to be reasonably obvious, but subtly done -- we can't assume that every user is an idiot forever. So, it makes perfect sense to me for the open file dialog to default to opening the demo files until you have a reason to make it navigate elsewhere. > Or perhaps the help menu would be more suitable. Weird, but reasonably logical. I think I could countenance that if the demo files opened as separate documents, but I don't think we should have things on the Help menu that have to close the current document to work. > >A nice alternative might be if we could provide another hint to > > the KDE file dialog to add one of those shortcut icons on the > > left side of the dialog pointing to the RG demos directory. The > > user could presumably then remove it if they wanted. Is there > > any way to do that? > > I think so, but then that icon would be present in *all* instances > of the dialog throughout KDE. Not at all acceptable. Would it? As a user you can certainly add icons that only appear for a particular application -- can't you do that programmatically? Chris ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4721&alloc_id=10040&op=click _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
