Re: volumes mark 2

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 16:05, Julien Olivier wrote:

> > Also on the desktop, as before, is trash, mounted removable media,
> > plugged in hardware (mp3 players, cameras etc) and links to connected
> > servers. I'm not sure whether we want a "Computer" link on the
> > desktop, but I think not. Its not a commonly used thing, since all the
> > mounted volumes are already reachable from the desktop.
> > 
> 
> Just a question: what have you finally decided about floppies ? Will
> there be an icon for them on the desktop even if not mounted or will
> there only be an icon for them in "computer" ? If there is only an icon
> for it in "computer", it could be a good idea to have "computer" on the
> desktop because it could be _very_ difficult for a newbie to figure out
> how to access his floppy...

I don't know yet. While your thinking here sounds reasonable, i just
don't like the idea of always having an empty floppy icon or a very
rarely used "computer" icon on the desktop. Damn, deciding these things
is hard! :)

> > Places like home, computer and network are easily reached from menus
> > in the nautilus window and the panels. I'd also like to re-introduce
> > the favorites system as a way to quickly reach commonly used
> > places. Favorites is more important in a spatial system, since deep
> > navigation is more work.
> > 
> 
> From the UI point of view, where would the "favorites" be located ?

It'll just be a menu thing I think, not a location. In the panel menus
and in the nautilus window menus.

> > The hard part about such directories like this is that they need to be
> > translated, and the apps using them need to find them, but the apps
> > may be running in different locales etc. Furthermore, it would be nice
> > if the directories could be renamed and things would still work. One
> > way this could be done is to place a ".docdir" file in
> > ~/Desktop/Documents, and look for that when locating the
> > directory. This is pretty fast to locate the few times you need it,
> > and the result is easy to cache (you just need one stat to validate
> > the cache). This even allows you to rename the directory if you
> > want. (And if the ~/Desktop/*/.docdir is not found we'll use ~/Desktop
> > as the default instead.)
> > 
> 
> What happens if someone moves his "Documents" folder from ~/Desktop to
> ~/Desktop/foo ? The "Documents" folder would still have the .docdir file
> but will Nautilus recursively look for this file ? I guess not.. But
> maybe FAM could help there (disclaimer: I don't know what I'm talking
> about) ?

I'm not sure we can afford doing a deep search for it, so this might
mean we don't find the .docdir file and use ~/Desktop instead. Or maybe
doing a recursive search is fast enough, we can experiment with that.

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