Re: Feedback: Six Nautilus annoyances

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 22:16, Curtis C. Hovey wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 22:56, Daniel Brodie wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 22:34, Eugenia Loli-Queru wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I would like to report six annoyances with Nautilus that I would love to see
> > > them fixed for 2.6.
> > <snip>
> > > 6. Please provide a checkbox/knob to make Nautilus remember the background
> > > images or colors on folder case by case. I would like my home ~ to have a
> > > nice girlie background image with fade pink hearts, but I don't want my
> > > /usr/local/bin to be the same. ;-D
> > > 
> > 
> > I believe this is curremtly possible. When you select the background and
> > emblems preference dialog, and you drag a color (or tile) to the window
> > you want to set it on, hold the alt key, and you should get a nice
> > context menu that lets you set it per folder.
> 
> Intuitive!  It's not even documented in the help displayed on the
> background and emblems palette.  I wonder if Nautilus did this in its
> youth as Eazel's premier app?

Holy shit.  In all my years of using Nautilus, I never knew about this. 
I rather doubt that any of the people working on the GNOME User Guide
know about it either.  We can only document what we know exists. :/

--
Shaun