Re: Nautilus annoyances - can configuration change these, if so how?

[Brian Gaynor <briang pmccorp com>]

On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 11:51 +0000, Stuart Sears wrote:
> Tomasz Torcz wrote:
> > Dnia 31-01-2008, czw o godzinie 10:20 +0000, Chris G pisze:
> >> I tend to use the command line most of the time but I occasionally use
> >> Nautilus when, for example, I'm housekeeping image files and it's
> >> useful to be able to see the images.
> >>
> >> However, for me, nautilus has some very annoying defaults and I'm
> >> wondering if they can be changed, i.e. :-
> >>
> >>     Nautilus opens a new window for every directory, this rapidly gets
> >>     annoying with deep hierarchies.  Is there an option to get
> >>     Nautilus to open a new directory/folder in the *same* window?
> > 
> >  1) you can middle-click instead of left-click. It will close parent
> > folder.
> 
> Fair enough, I didn't know that.
> where is that documented?
> 
> >  2) you can use Nautilus in browser mode: Applications -> System tools
> > -> file browser or Right-click folder -> Browse; or nautilus --browser
> 
> Not exactly what the OP asked.

I fail to see how changing the nautilus default to browser mode doesn't
do exactly what the OP asked for. It certainly works for me.

-Brian