Re: Embarassingly simple Q

[Bruno Coudoin <bcoudoin anfora fr>]

I also have Mandrake 8.1 and it is imposible to create icons on the
desktop. If I D&Drop is just do nothing.
Earlier version of gnome worked either with or without nautilus.
Now if you run 'nautilus', desktop icons should appeat (but D&D still
broken)
Probably the solution is to remove nautilus but I don't now how.

Bruno.

> 
> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 05:51:59 -0400
> From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?R=E9mi?= Cohen-Scali <Remi Cohen-Scali com>
> Organization: Sun Microsystems
> To: "John J. LeMay Jr." <jlemay njmc com>
> Cc: gnome-list <gnome-list gnome org>
> Subject: Re: Embarassingly simple Q
> 
> John J. LeMay Jr. wrote:
> 
> > I've been using Gnome with Nautilus for a while now, either as Ximian 1.0 or
> > 1.4, or more recently as the Gnome 1.4 build shipped with Mandrake 8.1.
> > Unfortunately I never really picked up some basics. Coming from Window Maker,
> > which I used for years, I never really dealt with a desktop. Now that I want to
> > use the desktop features of Gnome and Nautilus, I can't do some simple tasks.
> > 
> > The most embarassing task I have been unable to sucessfully complete
> > consistently is creating desktop icons (links) for applications (Netscape, Pan)
> > or shell scripts (to start Java applications for example). Could someone shed
> > some light on the logic behind links and the Gnome/Nautilus desktop or point me
> > to some good docs? I've tried the Nautilus manual, it seems out of date. I
> > didn't see anything over at the Gnome site that jumped out at me either.
> 
> 
> For icons, just drag/drop icons from menus or (for advanced users) create .desktop files.
> For Scripts, put your scripts in ~/.gnome-desktop/nautilus-scripts. They will appears in a nautilus popup menu and will give you 
> some context infos in env vars (a popup should display some help).
> 
> 
> > 
> > thanks!
> > 
> > John LeMay Jr.
> > Senior Enterprise Consultant
> > NJMC, LLC.
> >