Re: [Nautilus-list] Bugs and "I tried the desktop as HOME and ...."

[<bordoley msu edu>]

THe only thing i disagree with you on is having the home icon on the desktop
when using the home dir and the desktop. We should probably have a documents
folder though.

dave


Glen Gray <glen antefacto com> said:

> "..I like it." 
> 
> All the way through reading the countless emails on this thread I've
> been opposed to the idea. My desktop was clean with just links to my NFS
> mounts and devices and Trash. All my app launchers are from the menu
> panel.
> 
> After about 2 minutes I managed to clean up my home dir into a logical
> order. It surprised me how un-organized it was when I thought it was
> just the opposite from a terminal point of view. Now it's even better.
> 
> HOWEVER there are some pretty serious shortfalls the would need to be
> addressed before I'd be happy to have this as the default. These are all
> with the latest Ximian desktop releases (nautilus 1.0.6)
> 
> 1) When changing from normal mode to Home dir as desktop, Trash and home
> and NFS icons etc disappeard. I logged out and logged back in and they
> appeared.
> 
> 2) When cleaning up I was moving files and folders around to sub dirs.
> Every so often a dir wouldn't appear to move to a dir I was dragging it
> to. On closer inspection of the icon it seems that it did move the
> folder, but left it on the desktop too. i.e. when I open the icon it's
> location in the location bar was the correct new location. If view the
> dir where it was originall it was gone (in this case ~). Very confusing.
> This happened with files too.
> 
> 3) The modifiers for moving files seem messed up as Ross pointed out. On
> my setup Shift creates a link, Control copies, Alt brings up the pop-up
> menu (like when using the right mouse button).
> 
> 4) My ~ is NFS mounted here at work and opening a new window with Home
> as desktop seems a HELL of a lot slower than opening the same dir from
> inside a nautilus browsing window.
> 
> 5) Refreshing the desktop display should be an option in the desktop
> pop-up menu. Ctrl-r is quite hard to get sent to the desktop if you have
> Evolution open  (it keeps opening a reply to message window even though
> I've clicked on the desktop)
> 
> Finally a feature that DEFINATELY needs to be there is the ability to
> Hide and icon from desktop view on a per-icon basis. I should be able to
> click on some icons (multiple) and right click and have a hide from
> desktop option. As I said my ~ is NFS mounted and is used on a few
> different platforms (OpenStep 4.2 for example so I have an Apps and
> Library dir there that I want to hide).
> 
> Just my 2 cents worth. If anyone recognises what I mentioned as bugs
> then cool. If some of them aren't listed then I'll fill them in. Could
> someone try them out on gnome2 as I'm mid build at the moment.
> 
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