[Nautilus-list] A few questions about Nautilus, and small bug report.

["Jeffrey H. Ingber" <jhingber ix netcom com>]

Hi,

I've been playing with PR3 for a few days, and I'm quite impressed.  It
looks like the developers have put in _alot_ of hard work on this. 
While having fun with Nautilus, I've noticed a few quirks that I'll
document for the mailing list.  If any of this is fixed in CVS, feel
free to flame me :p

1) I can't figure out how to make the equivilent of GMC'c "launchers" on
the desktop.  While I can drag an executable to the desktop and a create
a shortcut, this is not ideal for several reasons:  The icon has several
items "tacked" to it, like file size, permission icons, a little arrow,
etc.  This is _excellent_ for data files, but not ideal for a program
icon.  I would like to be able to use the equivilent of GMC's
"launchers" under Nautilus.  The only way I've found to make this work
as I'd like is to create a file in ~/.nautilus/desktop that looks
something like this:

<?xms version="1.0"?>
<NAUTILUS_OBJECT NAUTILUS_LINK="Nautilus Link"
CUSTOM_ICON="netscape.png" LINK="command:netscape"/>

It would be nice if the menu that appears while right-clicking the
desktop would have an option to the effect of "New Launcher" (or the
equivilent under Nautilus) to create a simple program launcher without
all the data attached.  The menu contains only "New Window, Folder, and
Terminal"

2) I'm using SuSE 6.4.  SuSE stores Gnome configuration data under
"/etc/opt/gnome".  Ximian's Gnome packages _also_ use this location
which is correct on SuSE.  However, when building Nautilus with
--sysconfdir=/etc/opt/gnome, it creates files in pam.d, security,
cron.daily, etc. which of course, should be under /etc, which is _not_
where the rest of Gnome's configuration data is stored.  While I can
simply move these files to the correct place or specify
--sysconfdir=/etc, this is not correct.  Running gnome-config
--sysconfidr reads /etc/opt/gnome, and as such, there should be seperate
flags during compilation for the _system's_ /etc, and Gnome's.

3) Viewing HTML in Nautilus when compiled with Mozilla causes the
"Mozilla View" to Segfault.

4) The following appears in the console when starting Nautilus:

gconfd (jhingber-604) Another gconfd already registered with OAF;
exiting
gconfd (jhingber-604) Failed to give up lock on XML dir
'/home/jhingber/.gconf': Failed: Didn't create lock file
'/home/jhingber/.gconf/%gconf-xml-backend.lock/ior' (creator pid 608,
out pid 604; assuming someone took our lock

All in all, Nautilus is outstanding, and I've been running without GMC
while I've been playing with it.  This is such a great improvement to
Gnome and UNIX desktops in general.  You are all doing a great service! 
Keep up the _excellent_ work!


-- 
Jeffrey H. Ingber (jhingber _at_ ix.netcom.com)