RE: [Nautilus-list] my problem with nautilus

[Daniel Bachran <db condat de>]

Hello Mitch,

some of these things are also bothering me, especially your point A where I
had a similar problem but (I think) a slightly different idea.


> A.) Nautilus isn't very fluid for moving between hard disks, cdroms,
> floppies, etc.... Since the "draw to desktop" seems to slow 
> my computer
> down quite a lot, I turned it off. To my surprise, I can't 
> move between
> disks within one single nautilus window. It's dependent on having the
> icons on the desktop to move between disks. This is just piss poor. As
> some other guy mentioned, I like the My Home idea where it would show
> the hard disk, floppy, cdrom, local network, etc.... Much 
> like it is in
> windows. I don't suggest this because windows does it this way but
> because it works and it makes sence. Even better, forget the My Home
> virtual folder and just have a sidebar or bar up top that 
> shows all the
> disks, cdroms, etc... at all times. This way, the hard disk, floppy,
> cdrom, local network, etc.. is in view at all times within a single
> nautilus window.

I have put my idea in Bugzilla, with bug #62524: "Let user define more than
one root/top-level nodes" (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62524).

Here is my description of this "bug":

----------snip----------
Currently the tree sidebar does only display the filesystem starting at its
root. IMHO, it would be very helpful to have more than one root (top-level)
node, not just "/". Example: the home directory of the user.

Best thing would be if the user had complete control over all root nodes. So
he could specify several root nodes with: name, location (within the
filesystem), and optionally icon.

Multiple root nodes do help quick navigation from one part of the filesystem
to another. It has the advantage that you can define all areas of the
filesystem that you are using regularly and you can quickly open/close these
dirs (along w/ all subdirs!) in order to e.g. move or copy files from one
dir to another.

I would like to be able to specify at least the following root nodes for
example:
name: "root", location: "/"
name: "home", location: "/home/gambler" (my home dir)
name: "windows", location: "/windows" (windows partition)
name: "system docs", location: "/usr/share/doc"
name: "cd", location: "/cdrom", icon: "/path/to/some/cd/rom/icon.png"

I could then open "home" and "cd" when I need to copy data to/from my CD-ROM
drive (which I do quite regularly), and when I want to have a quick look at
some docs in /usr/share/doc I could temp. close "cd" (getting all those now
unnecessary subdirs out of my way) and open "system docs" instead.
----------snip----------

bye, daniel :)

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