Re: Cleaning up the nautilus context menu

[Maciej Katafiasz <mnews22 wp pl>]

Dnia 04-09-2004, sob o godzinie 17:22 +0200, Jaap Haitsma napisał(a):
> > 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"

Please don't.

> 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.

That's like 1:1 copy of windoze dialog :). I don't really see reason to
do that this way, decent shell with easy access to all capplets would be
much better (and from what I've seen in XD2 screenshots, I like their
MacOSX-like control-center shell, I'd vote for stealing it for upstream
GNOME :)

Cheers,
Maciej

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