May I suggest dragging the Computer icon to your panel? El jue, 17-06-2004 a las 04:32, Kotrla Vitezslav escribió: > > It's as simple as double click over the device icon in the "Computer" > > folder. It will mount the device and will open a Nautilus window with > > its contents. > > Thanks for reply, Carlos. But I don't like idea of having "Computer" > icon on my desktop, "Home" is enough for me. Moreover, I got no > permanent network connection on my home computer and no special > hardware, so I having that icon living on my desktop just to be able > to mount removables is a bit awkward. Even if I have "Computer" > icon on desktop for justifiable reasons, it still requires unnecesary > mouse moves and clicks to get there. > > Desktop context menu entry in 2.4 was just simple - right click anywhere > on Desktop where you just happen to be, select your media and its > "browseable" icon gets spawned on the destop. > > I had to get used to it, since I came from KDE world, where you have > "drive" links living on desktop waiting to be "switched on/off" (and changing > icon accordingly), but at the end of the day I liked this Gnome elegant > simplicity. > > Now if destop context menu entry is offending some philosofical principles, > what about small nice small replacement for existing drive mounting applet, > which would offer the same functionality (list of available drives to mount/un > mount) + it could be accessible on panel even if desktop is hidden deep > under some windows. Existing drive mountig applet is big, ugly and > uncomfortable if you have more mounting poinst (apologies to respectable > author). > > Is there someone out there sharing similar opinions, or am I alone in this > brave new 2.6 world? Bad thing is I got some friends whom I converted > to Gnome and I don't know how to explain this change to them <sigh> > > Thanks for any comment or ideas. > > Vit -- Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) GPG key ID: 0xC1033CAD at keyserver.net
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