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Bug 383840 - Better default path of open location on the desktop
Better default path of open location on the desktop
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Desktop
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-12-08 19:18 UTC by Guillaume Desmottes
Modified: 2006-12-12 10:44 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement

Attachments
patch to fix this (773 bytes, patch)
2006-12-08 19:38 UTC, Guillaume Desmottes 		none Details | Review
same but without leak :) (762 bytes, patch)
2006-12-08 19:57 UTC, Guillaume Desmottes 		none Details | Review

Description Guillaume Desmottes 2006-12-08 19:18:07 UTC 
When a user type CTRL+L on his desktop to open a folder, there is two
main case:

* he wants to go to an arbitrary folder of the system and type its absolute path (starting with the /)
* he wants to go to a subfolder of his home

Actually the default path into the open location is $HOME/Desktop. This path is selected so the user can directly type an absolute path.
But if he wants to go to a subfolder of its home, he have to hit "End",
erase the "Desktop" and then type the path to the folder from his home.

I think it would be better to have just $HOME as default path.
That'd change nothing for the first case and increase the second:
need to just hit "End" and start to type the rest of the path.
Furthermore, I don't know that many people want to open nautilus into their Desktop folder (it will be stupid, it's already open...on the desktop) but they more often want to open their home; so it will be a better default path.
Comment 1 Guillaume Desmottes 2006-12-08 19:38:04 UTC 
Created attachment 77980 [details] [review]
patch to fix this
Comment 2 Guillaume Desmottes 2006-12-08 19:57:08 UTC 
Created attachment 77982 [details] [review]
same but without leak :)

Shame on me, i let a useless strdup.
Comment 3 Alexander Larsson 2006-12-12 10:44:27 UTC 
Commited. Thanks.