Re: Cleaning up the nautilus context menu

[Jaap Haitsma <jaap haitsma org>]

Raphael Bosshard wrote:
> 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. 

I agree completely. See bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131790



> The only way to set the desktop 
> background is with drag & drop (as I'm aware).

You probably mean folder background overhere

> 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.

I think on the Desktop a "Desktop Properties" items would be cool. It 
then should have the possibility to:
1. Change the Desktop Background
2. Change the Resolution
3. Change the Theme
4. Change the Window Behaviour
5. Change the Font

I think that's fairly easy to implement if you just have submenus

"Desktop Properties"
	"Change Desktop Background"
	"Change Resolution"
	"Change Theme"
	"Change Window Behaviour"
	"Change Font"

A nicer solution I think is to have just one menu item which fires up a 
dialog with 5 tabs, which contain the 5 previously mentioned items.

I only do not know how easy it is to get these 5 items into one dialog. 
Currently they are different apps.

Jaap