Re: [Usability] Interacting with open folders

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts gnome org>]

cc: nautilus-list

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Christian Neumair wrote:

> > Don't you think it would be useful if File > Properties would open the
> > properties of the currently open folder when no files are selected?
>
> I proposed it and came up with a patch last may, it was rejected [1].

Reading the thread, it looks like it wasn't so much rejected as that 
there wasn't consensus about it. Am I wrong?

> Calumn stated in a follow-up that a background context menu item that
> allows display of the open folder's properties would be convenient.

Not just convenient, it is a real bug that this is currently impossible. 
Hopefully we can get to a solution now.

quoting the rest of your mail for reference:

> remember that I wanted to provide a patch for this as well, but a
> prerequisite patch that unselects selected folders on clicking the
> background was rejected as well. Don't remember details; anyhow,
> nowadays Nautilus behaves how I suggested, so I could try to provide
> another patch for the properties background thingie.
>
> [1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2004-May/msg00018.html

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