Re: [(RE)ANNOUNCING] nautilus-open-terminal

[Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn ant uni-bremen de>]

Christian Neumair wrote:
> As you might remember, I once announced the release of
> nautilus-open-terminal [1], a nautilus extension for opening the
> terminal of a selected folder.
>
> Reinout van Schouwen, a diligent translator you might know, wanted to
> send me a translation update today and I noted that although I did only
> a leaky pre-release, package maintainers picked it up and packaged it,
> which was not intended at all, taken that I really didn't care for code
> quality. Thanks Reinout :).
>
> Because I lost the tarball and just didn't care what, I thought it would
> be lost, but it isn't: I was able to recover a kind-of-orignal tarball
> from the (pkg-alioth) debian repository and could resurrect it.
>
> I updated it to use a icon for the menu item and work for selected
> folders as well, not only for the currently open folder. And it has less
> crippled dependencies.
>
> Maybe now that it works it's really time to remove the "Open Terminal"
> item from the desktop context menu (Nautilus 2.12).

NO! Please don't remove yet another valuable feature from GNOME! I use 
"Open Terminal" from the desktop quite often and would not want to miss 
it! I dont think the feature hurts anyone.

> Grab it from GNOME CVS (module: nautilus-open-terminal [2]) and start
> translating (3 strings)/testing :). Feedback is very much welcome. Have
> fun.
>
> [1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2004-May/msg00022.html
> [2] http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/nautilus-open-terminal

Regards,

Heinrich Rebehn

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