Re: Non-working preferences

[Dave Bordoley <bordoley msu edu>]

On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 09:35, MArk Finlay wrote:
> What the preference related to showing only folders the tree view? is
> there even a tree view ATM? i don't have one in 2.1

What the hell are you talking about? It's a sidebar tree, and it is most
definately there. Most likely your install is borked or something,
upgrade.

> Even if there is going to be a tree view it should not show files by
> default as it does currently(the setting is unchecked by default).
> 

Well if you ask me I don't think there should be a sidebar tree, it
should just be another folder view, but i digress. Given the current
design, i agree including files in the sidebar tree is pretty broken but
this has been argued to death and to be honest i don't really care.

> The setting needs to be:
> 1. Changed to "Show files in the tree view"
> 2. Removed from the ui. $HOME as desktop is gone and that is a far more
> poplular preference IMHO.

This pref was not removed from nautilus, it's hidden in gconf.
Furthermore just because it is popular doesn't mean it should be in the
ui. While I agree that $home should be the desktop, exposing this in the
ui is horribly broken. We need one desktop directory and it should just
work. Having a unbreak my desktop directory so I can do meaningful work
preferences is bad. 

dave