From kde-usability  Thu Oct 12 14:44:24 2006
From: "Friedrich W. H. Kossebau" <friedrich.w.h () kossebau ! de>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:44:24 +0000
To: kde-usability
Subject: Re: KSnapshot 0.7 is great
Message-Id: <200610121644.24907.friedrich.w.h () kossebau ! de>
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Am Mittwoch, 11. Oktober 2006 17:55, schrieb Aaron J. Seigo:
> On Wednesday 11 October 2006 7:51, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> > You have some data of a given type (like here image/*). There are several
> > actions possible, all are registered to a global service trader. The
> > program dealing with the data queries the trader and lists the possible
> > actions to the user. (IIUC Openstep has something like this since... oh,
> > ages.)
> >
> > With KSnapshot the "Open with..." button would than be a "Do..." dropdown
> > button or similar. And for powerusers there could even be support to add
> > shortcut buttons to the GUI on their liking, without the need to hardcode
> > any special action.
>
> we already have such a system for mimetypes, and a more
> detailed/customizable one for random commands for konqueror (servicemenus).

Sure. But the implementation is fairly limited. And still so much is hardcoded 
where it should not be. Well, something I hope to improve for KDE 4 with the 
blueprint of what there emerges with the contacts/organs framework. 
Stress "hope" :|

Friedrich
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