Re: [Nautilus-list] Nautilus usability suggestions.

[Tuomas Kuosmanen <tigert ximian com>]

On Tue, 2001-10-09 at 01:46, Erik Nordström wrote:

    >     Also missing is "New launcher" to create your own application
    >     launchers on the desktop as you can on the gnome panel. This submenu
    >     could also be filled in with "New text document" and so on, without
    >     cluttering the main right-click menu.
    > 
    > I think this is a known issue, though I agree, it needs to be added.
    > 
    
    I see your point about submenus making things hard to select. But adding
    the "New launcher" makes it four "New.."-type options and its starting to
    get cluttered. Also my suggestion was about adding more stuff there, like
    "New text document", "New mail" and so on...

Yeah. Once we add more stuff, I agree. Is the menu defined on an XML
file somewhere like the keyboard shortcuts? If so, one could hack the
XML and try different things out.
    
    > Also, I would like to have "New Terminal" on the File-menu of a Nautilus
    > window. It would be useful to hit a shortcut key to get a terminal with
    > the working directory in the directory what Nautilus was showing in the
    > window. (did that make sense? Open "My Documents", press a keyboard
    > shortcut and you get a gnome-terminal with "My Documents" as the working
    > directory.
    > 
    Isn't there a terminal component in the works that will enable this type
    of operation. Or is this a "non-official" nautilus project?

Yeah, I have seen it. But I dont keep the sidebar open, since I am used
to work more in "MacOS" mode, not in "Windows Explorer" -like setup. I
have sidebar and toolbar turned off, and by default everything opens a
new window. It would take quite a lot of screen space to have wide
enough terminal on the sidebar, that it would become non-practical on a
laptop screen.



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