[gobolinux-users] New Idea: From the blog.

[Jonas Karlsson]

On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 08:10:59 +0100, Rayne Van-Dunem  
<raynenamibia at gmail.com> wrote:

> Did anyone read the comments to the most-recent Gobo-related Digg story?
>
> Once again, its been mentioned that Mac OS X accomplishes what it does  
> with
> applications by means of a navigable drag-and-drop GUI + an  
> "Applications"
> folder.
>
> Then I Google for "linux+drag-and-drop", only to find that there's  
> little to
> no mention of drag-and-drop for a made-for-linux user interface.
>
> I see one or two here and there which state that GNOME is
> lessdrag-and-drop-oriented than Mac OS X because its
> main development focus is for Windows
> users<http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2006/06/lesser-known-drag-and-drop-tips-in.html>
> .
>
> So I've written up this blogpiece as a
> thought<http://gobolinux.blogspot.com/2006/12/drag-and-drop-or-application-as.html>on
> the lack of, and need for more Drag-and-Drop. Halfway through it, I
> make
> a realization.
>
> Of course, this might be less within the periphery of the Gobo devs and  
> more
> within the realm of the KDE and GNOME devs, but I would simply like to  
> know
> what you all think. Thanks.
>
I have been thinking to post a comment on that blog, but have run out of  
time. What you suggest is already possible in GoboLinux (or any other  
distro using listener) unrelated to what desktop environment you use. I'm  
not sure what default settings Listener is configured with on 013, but  
with the right settings enabled, all you have to do to install a package  
is to drag'n'drop the GoboLinux package in /Programs. It's then upacked  
and symlinked automatically. Same for uninstall, if you delete an  
application directory in /Programs the symlinks are automatically cleaned  
 from /System/Links. All done with listener.

I bet there are more things one can do with this, but so far these rules  
are the ones distributed with Listener.

As for trash bins - I really hate those! (but that's just me)

-- 
/Jonas

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