Re: [gentoo-osx] Followup to: The road ahead?

[Grobian <grobian@gentoo.org>]

On 28-11-2005 18:36:39 +1100, Finn Thain wrote:
> > > Ok.  Now I get what you want.  For the image converting applications,
> > > you might want to go for some 'drop file on' solution, like
> > > Photoshop has.  You simply drop a file on the icon, and it's being
> > > converted somehow.  I think this is quite generic somehow.  Interesting!
> > 
> > Nice idea, but currently not doable, I am afraid. My ObjectiveC / Cocoa
> > knowledge is not upto task to do something as complicated as drag-and-drop
> > programming ;)
> > 
> 
> When I used to use Fink, I wrote this script for viewing PostScript files 
> with Fink's ghostview (Preview.app under Jaguar wasn't able to open them). 
> 
> http://www.telegraphics.com.au/~fthain/sw/launcher.applescript
> 
> To use it, just paste the script into Script Editor, change the PATH 
> variables, and save as application. You can then drop stuff on it from 
> finder and that stuff will get opened by gv in X11.

Yeah, thanks.  This is exactly what I meant.  Those kind of scripts are
easy to generate, and may come in handy.  Question remains if this is a
job for us to do or not, and if so, how we would enable/disable it.

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Fabian Groffen
Gentoo for Mac OS X Project -- Interim Lead
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