Re: How to stop file browsing creating new folders?

[Jim Cornette <fc-cornette insight rr com>]

Ben Steeves wrote:

> On 6/20/05, Jim Cornette <fc-cornette insight rr com> wrote:
>  
>
> > I'll file a bug upstream to see if the default behavior can be changed.
> >    
>
> It won't be, but you can file the bug anyway.  Just don't be surprised
> when it's closed WONTFIX or NOTABUG.  See bugs 157527 147034 135690 &
> 134447 at bugzilla.gnome.org for a sample of what's likely to happen
> to your bug.
>  
Thanks for references to possible outcomes with bugs filed in GNOME 
against nautilus and "spacial" mode recovery. I think that making the 
option more "spacial", as in making a button or mode pull down to change 
the behavior of the file manager easily would stop a lot of wontfix, 
notabug closures of filed bug reports.
The modes should in your face or intuitively selectable from a menu. The 
feature is not too hard to find when reading lists that discuss the 
option and location of where the mode can be switched.
When setting a key option through the "Configuration Editor" and diving 
down several tree levels to nautilus --> preferences --> always use 
browser (then checking the checkmark)

Is there any way to set the configuration editor into spacial mode? Why 
is it not set that way by default?

> There's nothing "more sane" about navigational mode over spatial mode.
> But it's inappropriate to argue that here.
>  

I'll accept the fact that this list is more to help users than to battle 
over what is a sane behavior for an application. The list is to solve 
problems, lead one to resources or to steer one in the right direction 
to solve their problem. No arguments here, other than this posting.

> > Thanks for the info, I thought that it was initialized as default on the
> > distribution level.
> >    
>
> Some distributions make liberal changes to package defaults.  One
> reason I like Fedora is that they don't.  The GNOME usability wizards
> know what they're doing.
>
>  
When you have the code and someone wants to make a highly usable 
distribution that is intuitively easy to use, changing from the defaults 
is not always a bad thing. We could bring up BlueCurve or any thing that 
is different from one distribution over another. I don't think that all 
distributions ship with a set of smurf icons as their themes. I argued 
about the extremely blue them before and of course lost. I use Crux as 
theme. Mozilla is not set to hide on all distros that I know. Anyway, a 
distribution is usually known by its friendliness, intuitive interfaces 
or its general functionality and availability of useful or desired 
programs. I believe as a community, we can suggest what is appealing and 
what is not to one's liking.

If GNOME closes the bug, I doubt that I would be as fond as previously. 
We do have choices and this is a good thing. Having desktops that do 
things on a hardliner basis could be detrimental overall to their appear 
to users.

Jim

--
Where you stand depends on where you sit.
		-- Rufus Miles, HEW