Re: [bug]: Users should not be able to perform any file operations on these uris

[Alex Graveley <alex ximian com>]

Hi,

This is neither the place nor the time.  Please take this to the
usability discussion list and off of lists where people are trying to
get work done.

-Alex

On Sat, 2002-05-25 at 04:21, Dave Bordoley wrote:
> As the filer of the bug, the behavior you've described is what i would
> expect to happen. I also want to mention that in reference to
> start-here:, I would rather that system-settings, preferences:, and
> server-settings, not even be explosed in the ui since they are
> redundant. All of their content is available in the applications menu,
> and applications directory, which is user editable, through the desktop
> preferences directory and system tools directory (perhaps the contents
> of server setting and system setting should have their own directories
> like desktop preferences instead of just being lumped into system
> tools). 
> 
> So for the future I would like to see us remove start-here.  Add
> applications to the nautilus go menu and toolbar and just not expose any
> of these other uris to the user. This would make the issue of editing
> these directories moot and is a better / less confusing ui imho.
> 
> Off topic, i don't think we should have many user visible vfolders. They
> can be very confusing since they aren't connected to the file system
> (there is no central point from which they branch, so they appear sort
> of random). In the future i would like to limit the visible ones to
> applications: (replacing start-here, server-settings and
> system-settings), favorites: (to be used to replace nautilus bookmarks,
> like in macos finder), and trash: (for gnome-vfs trash handling)...
> 
> Probably took this discussion a little deeper than you wanted....
> 
> dave
> 
>  
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2002-05-25 at 03:57, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > Heya,
> > 
> > Could anybody read http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75214 and
> > explain to me exactly what is needed ?
> > 
> > >From my understanding, it's a trivial patch to the vfolder method making
> > so that modifications on the uri-schemes mentioned returns an "operation
> > not permitted" error.
> > 
> > Anybody could confirm my suspicions so that I can submit a patch ?
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > -- 
> > /Bastien Nocera
> > http://hadess.net
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