RE: nautilus usability suggestion

2002-10-07 Thread Rui Miguel Seabra
On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 09:04, Cochran Robert L (NO) wrote: > I would like it if OpenOffice could detect directories with a leading dot > '.' even more. That's an unrelated problem. gtk dialogs don't show the dot directories, but if you type: .[first letter] you'll get the expansion just right as y

RE: nautilus usability suggestion

2002-10-07 Thread Cochran Robert L (NO)
Title: RE: nautilus usability suggestion I like being able to park documents into separate folders organized by type, and having that on the desktop -- but only as a shortcut to the actual folder. I would like it if OpenOffice could detect directories with a leading dot '.'

Re: nautilus usability suggestion

2002-10-07 Thread Rui Miguel Seabra
On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 08:48, Marc Deslauriers wrote: > I am not interested in seeing the whole contents of my home directory on > my desktop. Seeing your home directory as your desktop is only good if > you have 6-10 things in your home directory...more than that, and you > have a UI problem. Well

Re: nautilus usability suggestion

2002-10-07 Thread Marc Deslauriers
Oh, please no! I am not interested in seeing the whole contents of my home directory on my desktop. Seeing your home directory as your desktop is only good if you have 6-10 things in your home directory...more than that, and you have a UI problem. Marc. On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 12:11, Rui Miguel

nautilus usability suggestion

2002-10-07 Thread Rui Miguel Seabra
I suggest to use the following as default in future releases: /apps/nautilus/preferences/desktop_is_home_dir = true The rationale is that the home directory seems like a very logical place where you drop your Documents, Downloads, etc... and you see your home and all you can reach from there. C