On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 22:56 +0200, Timo Stülten wrote: > > I don't think there's anything wrong with Windows style auto-start. It's > > convenient for the user and requires minimal knowledge and interaction. > > We just need to get it right. > I guess the minimal interaction is the problem at least for me :) > So again: why not simply use an index.html for a similar effect? > The file browser could render that index.html when looking onto removable > media (Konqueror already has an "show index.html" menu entry) and the page > can > show the convenient "click here to start" link or "how to start" text with as > much multimedia content as a CD producer wants. > that is a good idea, although I guess we want some way of autostarting automatically. So, what about having some options, like first checking for a desktop file on media, if not present, check for the autorun script, and, if not present, display index.html.
That way, if people want, they can put a .desktop file to get something automatically started. -- Rodrigo Moya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
