Re: [Nautilus-list] run-nautilus

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs noisehavoc org>]

On 20Aug2001 07:57PM (-0400), Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> Maciej Stachowiak <mjs noisehavoc org> writes: 
> > Will passing --no-desktop turn off the desktop if you're currently
> > running nautilus managing the desktop?
> > 
> 
> Yikes, I hope not. 
> 
> Maybe I need to hack in some new command line option for this?
> 
> nautilus --standalone?
> 
> Another issue we can't fix for this RH release that's worth doing: if
> you click the icon for Preferences, and already have an open window
> going to the preferences: URI, it'd be nice to raise/focus the
> existing window instead of creating a new one. I guess this involves
> the command line "nautilus foo:" looking for an existing "foo:"
> instead of unconditionally launching a new window.
> 

Nautilus has code to open a URI but prefer an existing window for that
URI (used by the directory views in multi-window mode for instance)
but it's not supported on the command-line right now.

It should be trivial (10-20 lines of code) to add support for this.

 - Maciej