GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 305962
Nautilus context menu items on special folders like trash
Last modified: 2005-06-04 17:46:51 UTC
Version details: 0.9.0cvs Distribution/Version: Ubuntu/Garnome Using latest seahorce from CVS, rightclicking special items line "Computer", "Trash", "Network" as well as harddisk & removable media icons shouldn't show "Encrypt" and "Sign" in the context menu... Anyway, shouldn't those 2 options be merged anyway, opening a window where you can choose so encrypt and/or sign the selected files? Two context menu items for seahorse seems a bit much for my taste...
Thanks. I took a look at the problem and it should be easy to fix. I'll probably get to it on the weekend. As far as the two options, those are two conceptually different operations. Signing is done in one context (ie: signing releases, documents, or perhaps large sets of files), usually to prevent tampering. And encryption (perhaps including a signature) is usually used when sending a file to a recipient. They are essentially two different use cases. It's not a matter of whether 'seahorse' has two menu items or not. But whether it makes sense overall. In any case 0.9 will rework a lot of this lingo and operations from the user POV.
>> As far as the two options, those are two conceptually >> different operations. Well, they come close enough I think. Evolution for example has a "Security" menu item where you find items for signing and encrypting a mail. But I'm not sure myself about how I would like this better, when I have a good idea about this I'll update this
I tend to agree with Nate. We've covered putting our context menu items into a sub-menu and I think it was determined the Nautilus guys would prefer not only less items on the menu but less deep sub-menus more so. Thus our current implmentation follows the middle path.
Committed fix to the stable branch: 2005-06-04 Nate Nielsen <nielsen@memberwebs.com> * plugins/nautilus-ext/seahorse-nautilus.c: Don't show context menu items on application/x-desktop items. Fixes bug #305962 BTW, thanks for noticing this problem.