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Bug 74556 - Control panel cannot be set to default to non-nautilus view
Control panel cannot be set to default to non-nautilus view
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.2.x
Other Linux
: Normal minor
: GNOME2.0
Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-03-13 19:59 UTC by Ettore Perazzoli
Modified: 2005-07-15 11:48 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
Nautilus showing preferences:// with no sidebar, statusbar or location bar (56.63 KB, image/png)
2003-02-23 17:10 UTC, Mark Finlay 		Details

Description Ettore Perazzoli 2002-03-13 19:59:24 UTC 
The sidebar tells me the date for the preferences view, which is confusing
("what is this date for?").  It also tells me it's a "folder", which is
kinda confusing too.
Plus, I have this ugly "preferences:///" URL on the top.
Comment 1 Michael Petnuch 2002-03-13 23:41:47 UTC 
There are two ways to open the control-center.  One, the default, is
to have it opened in a nautilus window.  This other is to open it in a
shell.  I think that is what you want.  Open a terminal and type:
gnome2-control-center --use-shell
Comment 2 Ettore Perazzoli 2002-03-13 23:45:14 UTC 
There is no way from the GUI to get to the second way, so it's still a
bug (from a usability standpoint at least).
Comment 3 Michael Petnuch 2002-03-14 02:08:37 UTC 
I didn't think of it like that.  Also I was asking around and most
people seem to prefer the shell view by default.  They say its
'prettier'.  So perhaps it could be made as the default view, instead
of opening in nautilus?  I agree that the nautilus view one is uglier.
Comment 4 Luis Villa 2002-03-14 23:45:03 UTC 
<sigh> continually rehashing this bug sucks, but ettore does have a
point. re-titling.
Comment 5 Luis Villa 2002-04-10 02:53:34 UTC 
Updating all cc bugs that have the GNOME2 keyword set to the GNOME2.0 milestone,
to help jrb triage/prioritize cc bugs. Filter on 'luis doing GNOME2 work' to
ignore this spam.
Comment 6 Luis Villa 2002-11-07 14:38:38 UTC 
SPAM as discussed last night. Search for 'SPAM as discussed last night' to catch
these all and delete them. :)
Comment 7 Mark Finlay 2003-02-23 16:42:42 UTC 
I agree that the shell should be the default but it's is 
in need of some love. See bug 106866 , bug 93087 and bug 87249

Another alternative is to totally scrap the shell and have
preferences shown in a nautilus window with no sidebar, statusbar
or location bar. It looks a lot cleaner like this. Would require
adding some command line switches to nautilus though.

Another issues is that there is no control center launcher in the 
applications menu any more. This is another issue, but it does
mean that the nautilus view isn't really a default either,
except when running gnome-control-center manually.
Comment 8 Mark Finlay 2003-02-23 17:10:08 UTC 
Created attachment 14548 [details]
Nautilus showing preferences:// with no sidebar, statusbar or location bar
Comment 9 Mark Finlay 2003-02-23 17:21:51 UTC 
Also the shell is not theme compliant( bug 90932 ), crashes when I
try to open an applet ( bug 105085 I think ) and does not respect
nautilus' single/double click preference making it inconsistent with
the rest of the UI.
Comment 10 Teppo Turtiainen 2005-07-15 11:48:01 UTC 
There doesn't seem to be a way to access this view anymore. Marking as OBSOLETE.
Please reopen if you disagree.