Re: Adding text to folder descriptions

[Mike MacCana <mmaccana redhat com>]

Aye - as I mentioned in a followup post to myself (addressed to the 
list), I found the notes feature, but its not what I'm after.

- The Notes themselves are to hidden away - you only see them on the 
Notes tab, which you have to explicitly seek out. I was after some text 
for the information bar - the user shouldn't need to know to browse for 
a description.

- I don't need the note emblem - if all top level folders had 
descriptions as Notes, / would look damn ugly.

Mike

Barry Branham wrote:

> I hadn't tried this 'Notes' feature before seeing this thread.  So I 
> added a note to a folder but was a little surprised that the result 
> was a 'note' added to the folder icon.  I expected to see a tooltip 
> pop up with the note in it when I rolled the mouse over the icon.  
> Instead to see the note you apparently have to right-click back to the 
> Properties/Notes tab.  Seems sort of cumbersome, wouldn't the tooltip 
> be a good idea for displaying notes?
> (I'm using FC2 with Gnome 2.6.)
>
> Barry
>
> Colin Charles wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 11:23 +1000, Mike MacCana wrote:
> >  
> >
> > > I'm using Gnome 2.8.1 on Fedora rawhide. I was wondering if there was a
> > > way to add text to folder descriptions. 
> > >    
> >
> > Right-click on a folder, and use the Notes tab?
> >
> >  
> >
> > > What I'd like to do is incorporate descriptions of filesystem folders
> > > into Nautilus, so users who go exploring outside their home directories
> > > can understand the purpose of various Unix directories. Short, simple
> > > descriptions of each directory's purpose (from the FHS obviously), that
> > > I'd like to get this into the next-next version of RHEL / Fedora (and
> > > mebbe Gnome). 
> > >    
> >
> > You could then add that to all the FHS based stuff, so when a user
> > browses /etc/ he/she will know what to do
> >  
>
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