Re: Scripts folder fixup

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 17:51, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 05:41, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 05:58, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > > Before I submit a bug on this, I want to know if this direction is
> > > something the Nautilus team is interested.  It seems that in GNOME 2.4,
> > > Nautilus will no longer display a menu item for the Scripts folder
> > > unless a script exists in that folder.  This can make it hard for new
> > > users to find the scripts directory to add news scripts.
> > 
> > Yes. This was a deliberate change made by the developers. The were two
> > reasons. First we want to keep the context menu to a sane size so you
> > can find the important items in it. Secondly the scripts menu is quite
> > power-user oriented, so having it there all the time when its not used
> > can be confusing.
> > 
> > It does hide scripts a bit though, and we should probably make sure they
> > are adequately documented so that people will be able to find it.
> 
> Thanks for the clarification.  I added my patch to the FreeBSD tree
> since I got complaints from some of our users.

The eternal problem. You can never ever ever ever remove a feature, or
you'll get flamed.

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