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http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/blog/1085895965
28 Simple (and not so simple) Things to Improve in GNOME 2.8
In one of the strangest acts of delegation I've seen in GNOME to date, Jonathan asked me to publish a list of Cool GNOME Hacks, originally authored by a secret keiretsu of Ximian and Red Hat hackers — ten in all, the usual names — who met in Boston recently.
I get the distinct impression that I've been marked for secretarial work... Anyway, this is a righteous list — put your hack pants on and check it out!
1.
Add a preview widget to the file selector for the 'Select a background' option in the Terminal's property page. Bonus points for other notable file selectors (hint: Desktop Background).
2.
After selecting files in Nautilus, and hitting the Run Dialog keyboard shortcut, bring up the Open With dialog.
3.
Let anything be deleted if dragged to the trash... Applets, toolbar icons, anything!
4.
Then create a Trash applet or figure out more clever scheme so that the trash is never obscured by windows (much like the Trash on the dock in OS X).
5.
Change the drag icons throughout GNOME to be the actual item being dragged, and leave a ghost behind. Starts with Nautilus, but could be extended elsewhere. (The HIG would need updating for this, too.)
6.
Transparent DnD cursor for item (needs GTK+ work).
7.
Update GTK+ drag icons. There are two patches sent to the list to update this — pick one.
8.
Create a per-panel "Configure Panel" dialog instead of menu.
9.
Remove gnome-panel-properties global dialog — all 3 options!
10.
Session Properties dialog clean up.
11.
Put current session information in gnome-system-monitor.
12.
Connect to server dialog cleanup.
13.
Per-directory view hidden-files support in Nautilus (see nautilus-list for recent posts about this).
14.
.hidden file support in gnome-vfs file chooser backend.
15.
Make sure that the file chooser is used everywhere.
16.
Sanitize volume control throughout GNOME.
17.
Drag sftp links to desktop and have them work!
18.
Clean up the launcher properties dialog in gnome-panel.
19.
Add a command line option to nautilus to bring up a folder with certain files selected.
20.
Quick launch dialog (like Launch Bar on OS X).
21.
Update location dialog in Nautilus to use GtkEntryCompletion.
22.
Move 'Connect to Server' to the "actions" menu.
23.
Change the default background image.
24.
Modify the Background, Font, and Theme dialogs all to have a similar look'n'feel.
25.
Get one of the Menu stripe patches (from Sun, Ximian and maybe others) into gnome-panel, but turn it off by default.
26.
Either kill the shell in gnome-control-center, or take the Ximian one and fix it. Either way, the preferences:/// uri in nautilus has to go.
27.
Go on a frame shadow fixing streak through GNOME. The obvious offender is the 'find file' dialog, but there are more.
28.
Logout dialog needs cleaning up. People have been interested in binding it to C-A-Delete. Additionally, looking into user-switching would be good. (Ed: James Cape is hacking on this.) |
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