Re: some activities in spatial nautilus

["David Adam Bordoley" <bordoley msu edu>]

From: Jakub Steiner <jimmac ximian com>
> On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 10:49, Alexander Larsson wrote: 
>
> > Solution 2:
> >  1 & 2 - the same
> >  3. File->open location (or ctrl-l), enter ssh addres
> >  4. dnd
>
> I'm extremely fond of the Ctrl+L dialog in the spatial nautilus, since
> it's a neat way to get to a distant location without clicking myself to
> death. 
>
> The trouble is that sometimes I don't have any nautilus windows open and
> some other app has the focus. So getting that dialog open is a bit
> painful. Would it be possible to put this functionality into, say, gnome
> run dialog? That one can be opened from anywhere. 
>
> Another thing I miss after using this for a while is being able to enter
> relative paths from $HOME, or having a quick shortcut to autocomplete
> $HOME. 

Well for the sake of mentioning it, I use a panel applet called appropiately 
"Open Applet"[1] to open long file system paths, web pages etc. Its nice cuz 
I don't need to know any keybindings etc. I just slam my mouse into the 
upper right corner and enter my web address for filesystem path. 

dave 


[1] OK I'm biased I wrote it too... :P