Patch for xfrun

[Jasper Huijsmans]

On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 14:15:34 +0100
Benedikt Meurer <Benedikt.Meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de> wrote:

> On Wed, 12, Mar 2003, James Tappin wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 12:40:32 +0100
> > Benedikt Meurer <Benedikt.Meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de> wrote:
> > 
> > BM> Maybe this should be configurable via the setup (and in addition
> > BM> the terminal emulator to use), as this should make life easier
> > BM> for the average user.
> > 
> > The terminal emulator is supposed to be set via the TERMCMD variable
> > (that's really all that xfterm4 does), however I've never been able
> > to get it to use anything other than xterm from the panel or xfrun,
> > although from another terminal it does work. I've set TERMCMD in a
> > part of .cshrc that isn't dependent on it being in an interactive
> > session.
> 
> If Xfce is to be used by a novice computer user, he wouldn't know how
> to change the Terminal Emulator, the browser or even the filemanager
> to be used by Xfce. He don't about .xsession/.xinitrc, he would except
> this to be configurable via a setup.
> 
> So, in order to get a good user experience, we should probably add a
> "Xfce helper applications"-Setup. That'll be a quite easy task: The
> launcher scripts will be replace by simple C-Programs that execute the
> selected applications.
> 
> Opinions?
> 

I have been thinking about that. They don't really have to be
application usually. For xfterm it could be nice, because it has some
functionality for drag and drop (useful in the panel) and opening
certain file types.

Helper apps:

* terminal, perhaps with terminal execute option if not '-e'?
* file manager
* browser (for help files)
* screensaver command? Should perhaps be on the panel settings dialog.

Any others?

	Jasper