Re: [Nautilus-list] ~/Nautilus

[Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com>]

On Tuesday, July 10, 2001, at 05:41  PM, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com> writes:
> > Is ~/.gnome/nautilus-scripts better? Sorry to stir things up.
>
> I'm pretty indifferent. I've thought of .gnome as "where
> gnome_config_* puts things" but there's the ~/.gnome/apps precedent,
> so maybe you are right. Just tell me what to do. ;-)

Miguel is always pushing for ~/.gnome in the name of not cluttering even 
the invisible part of the user's home directory and in the name of flying 
the gnome flag whenever possible.

Since I also do not feel strongly about this, I suggest using 
~/.gnome/nautilus-scripts.

> > Are you also planning to do something about moving existing users' 
> > scripts and helping them delete the ~/Nautilus directory?
>
> I can try to cook something up. I'm not sure it's super-important to
> do more than system ("mv ~/Nautilus/scripts .gnome/nautilus-scripts")
> and then let people delete ~/Nautilus on their own (I don't want to rm
> it, maybe they have data in there). Maybe a dialog saying "you can
> delete ~/Nautilus if you want, scripts are moved."

Sounds OK.

> If I remove the first time druid, I have to keep the various
> initialization side-effects in there that aren't really related to the
> druid, and then add this upgrade step to the "first time"
> initialization code, right?

Yes, that's the right place for it, I think. We want to have a version 
number of sorts in there, so we can do the appropriate upgrading steps 
exactly once. I'm not sure if that's already present.

> > I'd like to extend the .desktop files first, then remove the
> > Nautilus link files after considering providing some migration
> > tool. But I'd love to replace Nautilus link files with desktop
> > files, especially if we make the desktop file implementation in
> > Nautilus at least as good as the old link file implementation.
>
> OK. My first priority is just to establish this as the ideal long-term
> direction, so I won't feel bad using .desktop files for the Start Here
> link and the stuff inside /etc/X11/starthere. We'll have to support
> the link files (or provide a migration script) for a suitably long
> time, but there's no point creating new ones.

When the .desktop patch comes through, I'll look for things that .link 
files can do that .desktop files can't.

    -- Darin