Re: [PROPOSAL] A new menu layout

[Martin Wehner <martin wehner epost de>]

On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 15:41 -0800, Raul Acevedo wrote:
> There are already two patches for this...
> 
> 1.  As a menu item: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43472
> 
> 2.  As a toolbar button:
>     http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2002-February/msg00154.html. 
> 
> I've used the menu item patch without problems.  Does anyone know the
> status of having these in Nautilus 2.5/2.6?

I gave it a whirl too, and it works mostly fine.

There's a small issue: This patch [1] makes the hidden files setting a
folder metadata item. When you change location in non-spatial mode, the
corresponding menu items aren't updated with the settings of the new
location.
I also think that having both backup/hidden menu items is overkill, it
should be just one hidden files entry, I guess (would be consistent with
the global setting at least).
It's also not entirely clear to me if it should be a per-directory or
per-window setting, and if it should be remembered on a folder basis.

That said, I'm kinda onto it because it bugs me pretty often - but don't
hold your breath for 2.6, since feature freeze is around the corner.

Martin