Re: [Nautilus-list] Window re-use

[John Sullivan <sullivan eazel com>]

I don't know if that's possible or not myself, but it sounds like a good
idea if it is. Could you please write a bug report about it?

Thanks,

John

on 2/28/01 2:25 AM, Martin Norbäck at d95mback dtek chalmers se wrote:

> 2001-02-22T09:52:14-0800, John Sullivan ->
>> It is not the case that windows always get re-used. It is the case that if
>> you do not have the "open each file or folder in a separate window"
>> preference set, activating an item on the Desktop will reuse the frontmost
>> Nautilus window. This is a recent change, intended to match the behavior of
>> other programs that use a single window for navigating around multiple
>> locations, like a web browser.
>> 
>> You can choose "Open in New Window" from the right-click menu to force a new
>> window at any time.
> 
> I noticed this change. At first I thought there was something wrong with
> Nautilus, because it reused a window on another desktop. Is it possible
> to check if the window being reused is on another desktop, and if so,
> open a new window instead?
> 
> n.