[ge-talk] services

[Ari Haviv]

yeah but winamp and apple services changes the menu behind your back.
you should be able to optionally install or remove items.

On 1/31/07, Paul van Nugteren <pmvannugteren at eml.cc> wrote:
> Sure but again, you'll end up with HUGE context menu's like you can see
> in windows sometimes, like play in winamp, send to etc etc
>
> On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:03:47 -0500, "Ari Haviv" <arielbhaviv at gmail.com>
> said:
> > MacOSX has a services menu. For example, one service could convert
> > HAPPY to happy. Unfortunately their implementation is flawed. You
> > don't install services-your apps do. So the menu is overrun by
> > services you don't care for, hard to remove them and there are
> > keyboard shortcut conflicts.
> >
> > See http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/12/21/services/index.php?lsrc=mwrss
> >
> > I think services (and tracker add ons) should be part of Haiku-but
> > optionally installed and removed. Since Haiku is open source, any
> > developer can submit a service or tracker addon to haiku-os.org but
> > they would have to be tested for security and UI consistency. You
> > don't want a situation where someone can download something from who
> > knows where and mess up the OS.
> >
> > Web services-now this is where it could get interesting. You would set
> > your blog from the OS and select some text in your word processor and
> > click on "Blog this" from a context menu. Select an image and send it
> > to your favorite photo sharing service like flickr. Select "$45.54"
> > and see how much in euros or any other currency.
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