Re: Cleaning up the nautilus context menu

[Raphael Bosshard <whistler bluewin ch>]

Alexander Larsson wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 22:26 -0700, Link Dupont wrote:
>  
>
> > And I second the proposal to remove the "Use Default Background".
> > That's left over from when Nautilus had themes, and the theme would
> > set its own background. Now maybe if the GNOME Theme manager would
> > ever implement the BackgroundImage= in index.themes, that context menu
> > could set the image suggested in the index.theme. But the theme
> > manager would need to fully implement that directive first.
> >    
>
> Not really true. You can set the global nautilus background (using e.g.
> ask-drag) and the per-folder background. The "Use Default Background"
> operation is the only way to get rid of the per-folder background.
>
>  
I'd say that this is a inconsistency. For though you can reset the 
folder background in the same way you can reset the desktop background, 
you cannot set it the same way. The only way to set the desktop 
background is with drag & drop (as I'm aware).

Would per-folder properties solve the problem? I guess a lot of things 
could be packed in there, like placing of files, list/icon view, zoom 
and arrangement of icons. The handling of desktop and folders would get 
more consitent, for instead of the "Change Desktop Background" you would 
get a "Desktop Properties" (or simply "Properties") and the the same for 
folders.

Has anyone ever thought about "inheriting" properities?

Raphael