Re: Application roles - first steps

[Enrico Sersale]

On 2004-02-16 22:37:55 +0200 Stefan Urbanek <stefan@agentfarms.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I appreciate all comments about application roles. But... what about KISS 
> from the beginning? :-) Hey, I did not meant something too complicated (at 
> this time). Of course, there are plenty things that can be done with roles 
> and can be very usefult.
>
> What about starting with basic support for loght-weightet roles and see how 
> they will get into use? Then we can think of more advanced features. My 
> sugestion is this very simple introduction (steps) of roles into GNUstep:
>
> 1. Define a .plist key for default application role. NSApplicationRole?
> 2. Add support to GWorkspace with displaying application name as: 
> (configurable) Mozilla.app, Mozilla (Web Browser), Web Browser (Mozilla), Web 
> Browser. The option with 'role' at some place should be default for 
> promotional purposes (others will see, that there is something like that).
> 3. Wait for application developers to add single line into their Info.plists
>
> Then we can see whether it was good idea or not and after that we can think 
> about further steps with application roles. I know, there are just very few 
> applications for GNUstep, but eventhough some of them have names that do not 
> say anything about what the application does (even mine Farmer.app :-).
>
> What do you think? (Enrico? :-)

Do you mean to show the value for this new .plist key in the Contents and Tools 
inspectors?
If so, I can add this feature in 5 minutes...

> Best regards,
>
> Stefan Urbanek
>
> P.S.: Too complicated idea is more difficult to incorporate and understand. 
> Simple can grow and adapt easier to ones needs. I have no doubt, that later 
> we an have good kind of role based system.