Re: Fuse mount always opens nautilus window

[John Keller <gnome johnkeller com>]

David Zeuthen wrote:
> Deciding what drives/volumes to show, what to call them, what icons to
> give them and so on is always an interesting problem - everyone got an
> opinion on this topic ;-). There's some reasoning behind the way it
> works here
> 
>  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=520736#c1
> 
> including how to get Nautilus to hide them. Hope this helps.
> 
>      David

Thanks, David. I think it'll come in handy to tweak things come time for
my final install. Looks like my question is pretty timely, considering
the date of your bug comment. :-)

As I mentioned, I don't have a problem in the "Computer" area. It's more
that my places sidebar is taken over by something that isn't easily
configurable. Worse, not configurable at all in the sense that the basic
user expects to be able to modify the contents with the interface in
front of him.

My request for 2.24 would be a way to hide volumes from the sidebar.

Maybe a preference "Show in sidebar" in the properties dialog for the
item in the list shown in "Computer"? Then also a right click menu
option "hide volume" (active only if unmounted) for the sidebar
(re-adding would be from properties dialog). What happens when the
hidden volume is then added - maybe show it regardless of the "hidden"
preference?

Or better: start using titles + fold arrows as introduced in OS X
Leopard. Have separate categories: devices, shared, places. First has
drives and partitions (mounted or not), second is remote, third is
bookmarks (with permanent entries at top for home directory and desktop).

This latter way would be discoverable, easily undoable, and OK to make
persistent without need for a preference.

- John