Re: Some questions
Lennon Cook <lennon <at> riscque.net>
2009-04-05 15:16:47 GMT
Maria <geaplanet <at> yahoo.es> wrote:
> If you can change permissions easily in "properties"...why exists the
> dificult option "permissions"?
It lets you change the permissions of folder contents recursively, and
to change the permissions of multiple files at once. This dialog could
certainly be done better, though - for example, if it were modelled off
the one in Nautlius' properties dialog.
> If you can see size of a directory in "properties"...why exists the
> option "count"?
Select two files in a folder, and go Properties. It will open two
dialogs - one for each file. 'Count' will count the total size of
everything selected.
> Is there any option for autohide of panels?
Sortof - you can let other windows cover it or not in each panel's
properties.
I at one point started to code a Properties app in python to address
these two issues, among others (http://riscque.net/Properties ), but
it's kindof (read: extremely) flaky, and I've nine tenths changed my
mind on this being the best solution. I think a better way might be to
relegate 'Count' and most of the current Properties information to a
tooltip (which for one file would say 'Foo.zip 500kb' and for multiple
would say '3 items 1.5mb'), and to do all fiddling with permissions
from the Permissions dialog, which would be fixed to behave more like
nautilus' than like chmod(1).
> I know that it was a past determination, but why not could be an
> option to make the desktop another folder possible?
+1. It would be nice to have this as a command-line option, eg
'rox --desktop=$HOME'. This way, it would be possible to keep the
pinboard options still for people who really want that.
> Is there any plan for introducing dbus/hal in order to automount
> devices in rox desktop? (by the way, instructions of roscidus.com
> wiki doesn't work very well)
I do this with ivman ; put the attached script (which I
downloaded from somewhere long since forgotten) somewhere in $PATH, and
add the following to ~/.ivman/IvmConfigProperties.xml :
<!-- ROX automount+display on pinboard stuff -->
<ivm:Match name="ivm.mountable" value="true">
<ivm:Property name="hal.volume.is_mounted">
<ivm:Action value="true" exec='rox.panelput Add
"$hal.volume.mount_point$"' /> <ivm:Action value="false"
exec='rox.panelput Remove "$hal.volume.mount_point$"' /> </ivm:Property>
</ivm:Match>
When you plug things in that pmount can handle, they will be
automounted as you, and an icon will appear in the top left corner of
your pinboard.
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Lennon Victor Cook
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