Re: Device status bar

[Cosimo Cecchi <anarki lilik it>]

On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 02:07 +0200, Mats Vold wrote:
> The Nautilus places sidebar desperately needs to be
> single click activated. As I understand, the problem
> lies with devices that can't be automounted. I think
> the natural solution would be if selecting such a
> device would bring up an empty folder along with a
> device status bar, similar to the trash bar, with
> options for mounting the device etc. This would allow
> single click activation, and would comply with best
> practices, that objects are manipulated in the main view.

While the device bar itself may not be a bad idea, I already made a
patch that makes the Places sidebar activate on single click [1]. AFAIK
it's being used by Ubuntu Hardy packages and works good.

[1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=355760

Cheers!

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Cosimo