Re: [Usability]Nautilus preferences proposal

[Dave Bordoley <bordoley msu edu>]

Tigert this preference has to be removed before we ship. It's a security
hazard according to alex.

dave

On Sun, 2002-04-28 at 07:12, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-04-28 at 12:10, Frédéric Crozat wrote:
>     Le dim 28/04/2002 à 10:45, Maciej Stachowiak a écrit :
>     > On 27Apr2002 09:15PM (-0400), Dave Bordoley wrote:
>     > > 
>     > > 5. speed tradeoffs: i actually like this one, except what the hell does
>     > > "Make folder appearances Details public" mean, i have no clue what this
>     > > preference does, but if it does anything useful well it should be
>     > > renamed.
>     > 
>     > This preference controls whether an item's metadata is stored in the
>     > item's directory or in your home directory. The label is trying to
>     > explain the end-user effect (will other people be able to see settings
>     > of yours like icon positions and custom icons) but ends up being too
>     > vague I think.
>     
>     And if we don't remove it, we should at least disable it, otherwise
>     nautilus create .nautilus-metadata.xml everywhere (like on floppies,
>     memory stick and W*ndows partitions :((
> 
> Sometimes you want this, like my digital photos on my NFS server, no use
> wasting both disk space and cpu cycles to thumbnail thousands of photos
> on many computers. But yeah, maybe disabling it by default is a good
> idea, though it should definitely not be removed totally.
> 
>     In the same idea, I think we should disable by default the "show files
>     in tree" preference : users are not used to it and it will enhance speed
>     feeling for Nautilus..
> 
> We should really just run around taking down things *we* feel are not
> needed, as we are The Geeks. I bet Eazel did some user testing on stuff
> like that, so lets just not throw away all that without thinking twice.
> 
> Tuomas
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