No more right click terminal

[Bryan Clark]

Seriously dude if you calm down for just a little while, allowing for
someone to respond who actually knows what happened we won't have a
witch trial on our hands. ;-)

It's obviously not perfect yet, but GNOME is making progress to being
both Power Tool friendly (read you) and regular person friendly (read
hopefully everyone else).

This page describes lots of cool things you can install and use to trick
out your GNOME DE as you might like.
http://live.gnome.org/PowerUserTools

More specifically this page has the package for the _new_ open terminal
menu item that actually works better in most ways than the old one.
http://manny.cluecoder.org/packages/nautilus-open-terminal/

This new project gives you the option to open a terminal in any nautilus
window instead of just on the desktop.  The desktop menu will open a
terminal just like it did before.  However when you open a terminal from
nautilus window showing "~/folder-x/folder-y/" your terminal will be
opened to the same directory.  This is something new that I think makes
this option even better.

Now the new item isn't at the top of the context menu, but I think
that's the only real downside to this projects effort so far.

It'd be great if someone packaged this project in extras so that crew
with torches and pitch forks out front of my place will go home.

Cheers,
~ Bryan

On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 21:37 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
> I would really like to open this up to the discussion for the users and
> developers of Fedora.  This feature is very ingrained in a lot of our
> muscle memories, deeply embedded in our internal and external
> documentation for not just end users but entry level admins, group
> admins, and a myriad of folks that really do have a use for the
> terminal.  Sure you can just as easily get to it by selecting it from a
> menu, so that actually goes in my favor.  If we're trying to 'protect'
> the user, why have it in the menu at all?  If the end user that Gnome
> seems to care about won't notice, why not leave it so that the people
> who have a clue and have the capability of helping out don't get pissed
> off by yet another 'lets break history in favor of some "usability" we
> think is right for the fabled holy grail of an end user'.
> 
> This is yet another move in a long history of Gnome moves that makes me
> wish somebody forked gnome a while ago and removed all these stupid
> 'save the end user from themselves' changes.  For god sakes, make a 'end
> user safe' UI that has all these things in it, and then make a 'real
> user' UI that actually allows work to be done in the way that it has
> been done for years.
> 
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