> Phil Greenway (Sikosis) wrote: > > > I think we'd like to see this intergrated into FileType ... > > It is already part of FileTypes. > > It has been for years. So why duplicate work and features? > It's not enough. This is something that I too feel strongly about. Before you read any further, you must understand that I do actually * use* the application right now, and I think its cool, but I think differently as a team leader. BeOS doesn't need a dedicted URL Preferences panel, what it needs is either a) A FileTypes Preference panel that has been re-written and designed so it is easy to get to its features such as URL settings, or b) Your URL preference panel intergrated with the FileTypes one so that you can call it from a menu or something. R1 was intended to be a clone of BeOS R5, so the URL preference panel wouldn't really qualify to be included anyway, so what I would suggest is integrating it into the FileTypes panel via a menu item. > The URL feature is good, but it's got too low visibility, > resulting in a chicken&egg situation where > developers don't support the feature in their apps, > and users not knowing about the feature, or not > having enough apps to choose from to find it worthwhile. > > What I want to acheive with the URL preferences > is to raise visibility, for devs and users, to get us out > of this chicken&egg situation, and provide a good, > proper preference app for this obvious non-filetype thing. This is good, but again I would suggest doing these three things to raise this features profile : o Sticking/bolting it onto the FileTypes preference panel for now; o Start designing a new FileTypes (Perhaps even the name is wrong!) with easy to use features. o Release a super-URL Pref App on BeBits. > Apps that I know -don't- support the URL types: > Mozilla (www) > Opera (www) > NetOptimist (www) > Get-It (ftp) > > Apps that I know -do- support the URL types > NetPositive (www) > ArpTelnet (telnet) > NetPenguin (ftp) > RealPlayer (realtime media streaming) This just supports the fact that *right now* BeOS doesn't need a dedicated URL Preference panel. Why bother for all of 4 or 5 applications?? > This list is probably incomplete. (surely we have more apps?) > I have not included my glue apps, like MozillaOpener, since they > are just patches for apps that have not been finished, IMO. > > The email apps have traditionally used the preferred app of the > text/x-email type, so I have omitted them from this comparisson. > I would prefer them to migrate to the mailto URL type, > since one might very well want to use separate apps for > opening text/x-email files and for sending email. > > So, here's hoping I have convinced you that the URL prefs > I have created are indeed worthwhile. I certainly do. I honestly do see a need for easy access to changing these settings - but if anything, you have convinced me more that they should not be a seperate panel. To me, its like having a seperate panel to set the date format. Thanks Andrew Edward McCall OpenBeOS Preferences & Applications Team Leader mccall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- OpenBeOS - Join The Revolution Now! http://www.openbeos.org/