Nautilus problems

Noah Silva [Mailing list] nsilva-list at aoi.atari-source.com
Tue Mar 30 21:48:58 UTC 2004


I had a similar problem using "connect to server" and then putting in a
"sftp://" URL.  When I try to open it... error ;<

On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Ben Steeves wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 17:25, Noah Silva [Mailing list] wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I agree that the spatial mode is way too spartan, but that wasn't the main
> > idea.  The idea was simply that each folder has certain properties, a
> > background, a position, etc.  This was already somewhat true in the browse
> > mode, but is easier to see in "spatial mode".  Mac OS 6-9 used this
> > scheme, as did OS/2.
>
> So did the Amiga, which is personally why I was glad to see a spatial
> filesystem browser in Linux.  It seems odd that so many filesystem
> managers try to work like Windows Explorer.  I never got used to that
> form; I always preferred spatial and I still do, even though Nautilus'
> still has a few warts (ex: click on a Windows Network host, then click
> on any of the shared resources, and you'll get an "The action associated
> with "share" is invalid" message.  If you associate nautilus with it,
> you'll get an error message "'Nautilus' can`t open 'jazmin' because
> 'nautilus' can`t access files at 'smb' .locations".  Whoops :-)
>
> > I don't think this means that the toolbar has to be
> > done away with though, it could simply have different items in it.  In
> > particular, I would like the zoom and "view as..." widgets there.  I
> > suppose people in hell want ice water too...
>
> By implication, people using Nautilus are in hell :-)  Just kidding.  I
> like spatial mode.  And there's nothing stopping anyone from never
> seeing spatial mode if they don't want to!
>
>
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