Re: GWorkspace.app Feature Request-- Tabbed Shelf

[Nicolas Roard]

On 2003-06-27 07:21:38 +0000 Martin Brecher <martin@mb-itconsulting.com> wrote:

> While I like that idea very much... please introduce a default value to
> turn the thumbnails on/off. I.e. in case of a missing/broken wraster lib
> or on a slow box.

Good point, yes.

> ImageViewer comes to mind, which can be used to browse entire folders of
> images. Possibly other apps which deal with folders (ftp app? alternate
> workspace app, etc).
> There *will* be a case some day where this is needed by another app.
> Making it a service seems way more appropriate to me, especially with
> the unix-design in mind of having a alot of small tools (or objects in
> the NeXT world) and combining them.

Right, I agree that it could be interessting and should be callable when
using other apps. For a start, a service will be fine I think.

> Btw, do services honour command line arguments? In that case the
> 'thumbnailer' service could also be run from a cron job for example or
> in the background during Window Maker/X11 startup...
>
> Greetings,
> Martin

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Nicolas Roard