Package: nautilus
Severity: normal
Version: 2.0.8
Synopsis: Creating/editing launchers on the Desktop using GUI is broken
Bugzilla-Product: nautilus
Bugzilla-Component: Desktop

Description:
Description of Problem:

When creating new "launchers" on the Desktop using the right-mousebutton
popup menu, newbie users are presented with a dialog that could not
possibly  be more confusing. What is the difference between "Name" and
"Generic name"? What is a "FSDevice", "ServiceType", etc.? There is no
"Help" button either.

Moreover, once the launcher has been created, the "Properties" command
will not display the same dialog that was used for creating the
launcher, but the standard Nautlius dialog, which does not allow to
alter most of the settings made in the dialog for creating the launcher.
Unexperienced users are forced to delete the launcher and start anew.

In short, the whole process of creating "launchers" on the Desktop with
the supplied GUI frontend is pretty much unusable for newbies. It's just
plain broken.

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Select "New Launcher" from RMB popup menu on desktop

Actual Results:
Confusing dialogs, no "context help", no way of correcting errors
through the GUI once the launcher has been created.


Expected Results:
A guided process that just works, like in MS Windows or KDE.


How often does this happen?
Everytime.


Additional Information:
What more can I say?




------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2003-01-09 03:33 -------

The original reporter (florian_bachmann@t-online.de) of this bug does not have an account here.
Reassigning to the exporter, unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org.
Reassigning to the default owner of the component, nautilus-maint@bugzilla.gnome.org.