GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 136779
Insufficent docs for scripts
Last modified: 2006-01-19 08:34:34 UTC
I'm trying to get the scripts menu to work, and the help file only says "The file manager includes a special folder where you can store your scripts." It never gets round to telling you *where* this special folder is, which is still something I don't know, since I can't find it anywhere else either.
In the "Scripts" context menu in nautilus, the last item is "Open Scripts Folder".
That context menu only appears if you already have scripts though, and if you don't have any already, you're most likely to not know where the folder is.
*** Bug 125449 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Is there a reason the scripts menu isn't shown if there aren't any scripts? Wouldn't it just be easier to always include the scripts menu, with an entry of "Open Scripts Folder" so you can easily add scripts?
*** Bug 172206 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Description from Bug 172206: If no scripts are installed, and thus the "Scripts" submenu is hidden, a menu entry "File->Open scripts folder" should be added. Other information: If no scripts are installed, the Scripts menu of Nautilus isn't displayed at all. There is also no "Open Scripts folder" menu entry anywhere, and the location of the scripts folder on disk is also not mentioned in the Help, so it's impossible to add scripts without googling the location of the scripts folder ( ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/ ).
Shaun - Can you point this in the direction of whoever's thinking about Nautilus docs?
That would be me. I have a section on scripts in my current outline. ${DEITY} willing, it will actually make it into 2.10.1.
I agree with comment 4, and reopening Bug 125449 to deal with it. Marking this as a dupe of a bug that fixes documentation. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 324966 ***