GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 114227
Feature Request: Nautilus - Terminal Prompt Collaboration
Last modified: 2010-09-16 12:45:15 UTC
Motivation: Try using Nautilus only, no Terminal of any type, to accomplish your day to day system duties. Ive tried and its impossible as yet. One goal of Nautilus should be to offer all the power of a shell, in a graphical form. Even when Nautilus is that powerful, there will be many things for which a Terminal is simply more efficient. For the above two reasons, this project should investigate means of getting Terminal and File manager to work better. Proposal: A menu accessible Gnome Termnial embeded in Nautilus. At the click of a button a Gnome Terminal either descends from bottom of the Nautilus window, splits the right side view pane ( top/bottom ) in two, or consumes the entire view pane. This would be more than "new term here", the Terminal should be able directly interact with Nautilus via Drag-Drop manipulations, respond to the Tree SideBar navigation, contain the standard in/out/err files for a app launched from Nautilus, and ideally Terminal could make use of the Nautilus MIME or VFS capabilities. Action: Please consider this proposal with myself and other members of the Nautilus Team.
see <a href="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi? id=91989">91989</a>
See 91989: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91989
Thanks for your bug report! Considering that this is a power user feature, I'm lowering its priority to "low", and updating its version information. Feel free to hack away and come up with a plugin framework allowing us to offer this functionality as an extension, though :). If you need advice on the architecture, contact the mailing list: http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
Still present (or rather, NOT present (lol)) in Nautilus 2.24.1. I can't believe other people would even notice something like this let alone be troubled by it too. I thought i was totally the only one that might notice so i raced to get my 'bug' report in before anyone else - only to find its an ages old 'issue'. I thought Konqueror opened a terminal panel just below the browser window but that failed to be in the same folder as the file-browser window that it was attached to. I fell for it several times because it looks as though it should be & one would assume it was but sadly it was just a terminal session starting from the same place as it would in a separate window. If anything it just added to the confusion of this nooob. I could be wrong as i started with Mandriva 64bit which was really wrong for both my hardware and me. Much happier with Ubuntu colours. What i'm looking for is a way of opening a file-browser window as a super-user. The right-click Open With... has been a blessing though. Thanks, whoever pointed that trick out :)
Created attachment 124455 [details] terminal pane proposal
lol, my work-around is a little clumsy but seems the best thing available? open a terminal window and type su and the password then type in nautilus as a command. The file-browser pops up but with root privileges? I still wasn't able to do what i wanted from there but it might work with other tasks?
Isn't this what nautilus-open-terminal already provides more or less?
Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for. Thanks!
I can't find nautilus-open-terminal and while this functionality is there in Mandriva it is still not available in Ubuntu. Although some of us have become much more familiar with the command-line and although the gui front-ends are improving almost daily this is still something that would seem to be soemthing that could be simply ported over from Mandriva to make Ubuntu more easily accessible to linux-noobs. Regards from Tom :)
(In reply to comment #9) > I can't find nautilus-open-terminal Then ask your distribution to provide it? and while this functionality is there in > Mandriva it is still not available in Ubuntu. Then please contact Ubuntu.
Ahhh, so it is not something that could be added to the upstream default Nautilus but needs to be separately implemented by individual distros?
nautilus-open-terminal already provides that functionality, but it is a separate package. It's up to your distribution to provide that package for you. :) There are no plans to add this functionality to default nautilus.