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carpelo

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Open Incoming folder
« on: August 28, 2005, 10:19:41 AM »
It's just an idea i saw somewhere else (emule):

it would be nice to have a button that when pressed, would open our incoming folder directly from amule.

Thanks in advance and congratulations for your work.

Carlos Pérez(Valencia, Spain)
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lfroen

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Re: Open Incoming folder
« Reply #1 on: August 28, 2005, 10:54:12 AM »
Right-click on desktop -> create link -> browse to $HOME/.aMule/Incoming -> Press ok.

Simple, isn't it ?
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Re: Open Incoming folder
« Reply #2 on: August 28, 2005, 10:41:10 PM »
I don't see the point of having amule just open your incoming folder. You can easily create a link somewhere as lfroen has pointed out.
What would be kinda handy (particularly for shared files) would be a function that opens the folder of the appropriate file and selects the file (so you can immediately "Get Info" it, move it, etc.). A lot of Mac programs have such a function ("Reveal in Finder") and it is pretty nice.

However, I have a feeling that a function like this would be tedious to implement, because all the code would have to be platform specific. So at this point, I don't think it should be a high priority.
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Re: Open Incoming folder
« Reply #3 on: August 29, 2005, 12:27:15 PM »
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However, I have a feeling that a function like this would be tedious to implement, because all the code would have to be platform specific. So at this point, I don't think it should be a high priority.

And another question on *NIX would be "Open it in what?" Konqueror? mc? gentoo (the GTK file browser, not the distro)? The "I-just-don't remember-it's-name" GNOME file browser?
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Re: Open Incoming folder
« Reply #4 on: August 29, 2005, 01:03:24 PM »
indeed the only reason why it's not being added is thedude0001's reason. Since there already is a mess with the browser selection. No need for mor such messes ;)
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Re: Open Incoming folder
« Reply #5 on: August 29, 2005, 01:39:04 PM »
@dude nautilus ;)
Maybe you should use an editbox for this, where the user has to enter the name.
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Re: Open Incoming folder
« Reply #6 on: August 29, 2005, 01:55:14 PM »
dont we do the same for the webbrowser and our websearch and fake-check function
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Re: Open Incoming folder
« Reply #7 on: August 29, 2005, 02:31:54 PM »
so... you propose to have an edit/selection box for:
*web browser
*file browser
*text editor
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lfroen

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Re: Open Incoming folder
« Reply #8 on: August 29, 2005, 02:44:01 PM »
@dude: we have "Desktop integration mode" in preferences. We support tray icon both in KDE and in GNOME. Similary, we should open konqueror in KDE and Nautilus in GNOME according to this preference.

Moreover, correct integration implies that we could provide "Open with" dialog - same as underlying desktop (both kde and gnome have it).

I have no idea why this function is better that creating link on desktop, but it definitly can be implemented.
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Re: Open Incoming folder
« Reply #9 on: August 29, 2005, 05:37:39 PM »
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@dude: we have "Desktop integration mode" in preferences. We support tray icon both in KDE and in GNOME. Similary, we should open konqueror in KDE and Nautilus in GNOME according to this preference.

Hmm, I just triple-checked my preferences and couldn't find anything about a "Desktop integration mode"?

Anyway, I second your opinion, lfroen. It sure can be implemented, I just don't see the big advantage...
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Re: Open Incoming folder
« Reply #10 on: August 29, 2005, 06:25:08 PM »
That only appears on wx 2.4 and it's strongly disadvised to use.
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Re: Open Incoming folder
« Reply #11 on: August 29, 2005, 06:25:22 PM »
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@dude: we have "Desktop integration mode" in preferences. We support tray icon both in KDE and in GNOME. Similary, we should open konqueror in KDE and Nautilus in GNOME according to this preference.

Hmm, I just triple-checked my preferences and couldn't find anything about a "Desktop integration mode"?

Anyway, I second your opinion, lfroen. It sure can be implemented, I just don't see the big advantage...

thedude with wxGTK-2.6 we "automatically" ahve this function included in wx. so when you enable systray in prefs amule detects himself if you run gnome or kde

with wx-2.4 you still have those little checkboxes for kde/gnome but with wx-2.6 this is simple gone
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Re: Open Incoming folder
« Reply #12 on: August 29, 2005, 09:13:55 PM »
Ah, well, I use windowmaker on the computer running amule, which has no systray...
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Re: Open Incoming folder
« Reply #13 on: September 04, 2005, 11:49:34 AM »
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LFROEN SAID:
" Right-click on desktop -> create link -> browse to $HOME/.aMule/Incoming -> Press ok.

Simple, isn't it ? "
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 ?(

So simple that i already had it before i wrote my post.  But it's not what i was asking for, if you read again my post.

I was asking for a new amule feature, as i have seen on emule clients, and it's quite interesting (IMHO) as you can open folder categories, files, etc.... directly from the client.
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lfroen

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Re: Open Incoming folder
« Reply #14 on: September 04, 2005, 05:49:06 PM »
carpelo: Lemme quote you (for correctness sake):
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it would be nice to have a button that when pressed, would open our incoming folder directly from amule.

And compare it with:

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" Right-click on desktop -> create link -> browse to $HOME/.aMule/Incoming -> Press ok.

Don't know about you, but personally, I see no difference.
Opening per-category folder is another story, but considering code complexity vs. usefullness - I would give it quite low priority.
Consider this: such feature is desktop-specific. Meaning, code is different on gnome and kde. If we link to both libs, people that using binary packages must have all those libs too ! Which add install complexity.
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