Re: [Nautilus-list] .nautilus-metafile.xml

[Darin Adler <darin eazel com>]

on 1/9/01 2:40 AM, Ross Burton at r burton 180sw com wrote:

> Dennis Bjorklund wrote:
>> 
>> Nautilus have a tendency to leave files around. Especially .thumbnails and
>> .nautilus-metafile.xml. How does this work tohgether with a multiuser
>> system like unix. I have directories that are writable by several users.
>> What happens when they go to the same place. Will everyone overwrite the
>> .nautilus-metafile.xml from another user. Actually they cant. Does that
>> mean it's just the first one that happend to go to a directory that saves
>> the metafiles. And this metafile contains window-sizes and such. What if
>> the first user have a 1600x1200 screen and the next have a 650x480
>> screen...
>> 
>> I think this is a broken behaviour, but maybe that's just me. Or maybe I
>> don't know how it works.
>> 
>> My question is really, what is the philosophy behind this?
> 
> I personnally think that by default these files should be stored in a
> single location under $HOME, with an option to write .metafile in the
> directory if required.

The option you mention already exists, although the default is to put the
metafiles in the directories. It's in the "Speed Tradeoffs" pane in the
Settings dialog, and is named "Read and write metadata in each folder."

    -- Darin