Re: [Nautilus-list] Nautilus experience and some problems

[Jonas De Vuyst <jonas devuyst advalvas be>]

Sorry if I'm sending this mail twice... I *think* I hit reply instead of
reply all but I'm not sure...


On 22 Mar 2001 21:36:25 +0530, vijay linuxfreemail com wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>   I installed nautilus on my Debian system. It runs pretty well and
> speed has also improved very Much but there are a few problems. 
> 
> 1. On the desktop right click menu there is no CDrom device. Only
> floppy is there. I have tried recompiling the nautilus .debs on my
> system but it still doesn't work. After doing some research it
> appears that there is a similar bug in bugzilla (#6396) marked fixed
> and also in bugs.debian.org (#89709). The bug in bugzilla seems to
> be marked as fixed. The contents of my /etc/fstab are as below
> 
> -----
> /dev/hda5     /               ext2    defaults,errors=remount-ro
0       
> 1
> /dev/hdb9     none            swap    sw                      0
0
> proc          /proc           proc    defaults
0       
> 0
> /dev/fd0      /floppy         auto    defaults,user,noauto
0       
> 0
> /dev/cdrom    /cdrom          iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto
0       
> 0
> /dev/hda2 /boot ext2 rw                       0       2
> /dev/hda6 /var ext2 rw                        0       2
> ---Rest cut off

On my system only the CD-Rom drives are shown. That is, a CD-RW and DVD
drive both emulated as SCSI. My /etc/fstab:

# <file system> <mount point> <type>    <options>
<dump> <pass>
/dev/hde1       /             reiserfs  defaults                    0
0
/dev/hde2       /home         reiserfs  rw                          0
0
/dev/hde3       /var          reiserfs  rw                          0
0
/dev/hde6       /tmp          reiserfs  rw                          0
0
/dev/hde5       none          swap      sw                          0
0
proc            /proc         proc      defaults                    0
0
/dev/floppy     /floppy       auto      defaults,user,noauto        0
0
/dev/cdrom      /cdrom        iso9660   defaults,ro,user,noauto     0
0
/dev/dvdrom     /dvdrom       iso9660   defaults,ro,user,noauto     0
0

With /dev/floppy, /dev/cdrom and /dev/dvdrom being:

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            4 Dec 17 18:27 /dev/cdrom ->
scd0
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            4 Dec 17 18:32 /dev/dvdrom ->
scd1
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            3 Dec 18 16:19 /dev/floppy ->
fd0

The fstab entries seem to be mostly identical unfortunately.

Jonas.

> 
> 2. I have also installed the gnome-1.4 rc1 packages and there are a
> couple of problems coexisting with it. Gnome-1.4 provides
> application feedback using xalf. But this does not seem to be the
> case with icons on the desktop.
> 
> 3. If I drag some launchers from the panel to the desktop it doesn't
> work. Only the ones in the Foot menu and that also in the unmodified
> form work. 
> 
> 4. I am currently using a light coloured background. This makes it
> impossible to read the text on the desktop icons.
> 
> 5. How about integrating the nautilus preferences dialog with the
> control center?
> 
> 6. When will Eazel officially include support for debian ..:).
> 
> Apart from the above nautilus is a very good product and now usable
> for everyday work.
> 
> Vijay.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Vijay Prabakaran              
> B.Tech Student(Final Year)
> Department of Electrical Engineering
> Indian Institute of Technology - New Delhi.
> At once it struck me what quality went to form a man of achievement,
> especially in literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so
enormously
> -- I mean negative capability, that is, when a man is capable of being
> in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching
> after fact and reason.
>               -- John Keats