hmc
Active Member
Hi guys,
Often I download a bunch of new PNDs and want to try each one of them, before putting them into my usual PND place (/pandora/menu on my boot SD card / left slot).
If they are only a few, I put them onto my data SD card's (right slot) /pandora/desktop.
But if I download more than 9 new PNDs for trial, space on the desktop is used up, and some pf the PNDs don't show on the desktop anymore.
So that's not a very big problem, as I can shift around the files manually with some mv commands, but I thought, if there might be a more convenient way to have a "playground", where new PNDs can be tried out.
It could help, if the graphical file manager could directly start PNDs via doubleclick (or "Execute"). Then I could simply open a file manager window, navigate to the "download" directory on the data card (not necessarily in /pandora), and doubleclick a PND to start it.
If I want to keep it, I move it to the common location. If I don't, I delete it.
Questions:
1. Do you have any other ideas, how to implement such a "playground" using existing methods?
2. Couldn't we enable the filemanager in a relatively simple way to execute PNDs by doubleclicking, by registering the MIME type of the PND files, to use /usr/bin/pnd_run to execute the PND?
Often I download a bunch of new PNDs and want to try each one of them, before putting them into my usual PND place (/pandora/menu on my boot SD card / left slot).
If they are only a few, I put them onto my data SD card's (right slot) /pandora/desktop.
But if I download more than 9 new PNDs for trial, space on the desktop is used up, and some pf the PNDs don't show on the desktop anymore.
So that's not a very big problem, as I can shift around the files manually with some mv commands, but I thought, if there might be a more convenient way to have a "playground", where new PNDs can be tried out.
It could help, if the graphical file manager could directly start PNDs via doubleclick (or "Execute"). Then I could simply open a file manager window, navigate to the "download" directory on the data card (not necessarily in /pandora), and doubleclick a PND to start it.
If I want to keep it, I move it to the common location. If I don't, I delete it.
Questions:
1. Do you have any other ideas, how to implement such a "playground" using existing methods?
2. Couldn't we enable the filemanager in a relatively simple way to execute PNDs by doubleclicking, by registering the MIME type of the PND files, to use /usr/bin/pnd_run to execute the PND?