Re: Adding choice of file manager to default applications

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 09:57:12PM +0000, Kyle Davis wrote:
> 
> 	Just curious, but are there plans to add a setting to change
> 	default file managers in GNOME 2.6?  Possibly in the default
> 	application preferences, or if nothing else a GConf key.  This
> 	would allow alternative file managers a chance of integrating
> 	into GNOME better and would also void all excuses for leaving
> 	"nautilus" hard coded into existing GNOME applications.
> 	Currently the only way to ensure you're choice file manager
> 	will be used all the time is to symlink it to "nautilus".
> 	This is most definitely not user friendly.
> 

You can already just change what file manager is in your session.
With GNOME 2.3.x, you can even replace only the desktop background
part of nautilus I think, as nautilus will honor a selection for
"desktop manager"

Having GUI to choose file manager isn't a good idea for the same
reason GUI to choose window manager isn't - "file manager" isn't
exposed as a user-visible term at the moment, I don't think.  It's
just a given part of the environment.

Havoc