GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 145427
Optional Navigation aids for Nautilus
Last modified: 2005-07-12 13:09:49 UTC
Navigational aids: 1) optional bookmarks in spatial 2) bookmarks to have shortcut keys 3) ability to set folder actions for left and middle mouse buttons 4) have an open in same window option for (3) 5) have an optional pathbar displayed instead of the location button (apologies if this request dupes previous entries in bugzilla but I have a patch for all the above and i need somewhere to put it!).
Created attachment 29226 [details] [review] mega patch Patch provides all of mentioned above and an extra tab in global preferences window to easily turn on or off the settings.
While I really appreciate your efforts it is very unlikely that this patch will go into Nautilus as-is. Therefore it would be helpful if you splitted out the various parts. Proposed split-out (without looking at the patch): - Preferences Changes - Bookmarking Changes - Pathbar Changes - Folder Actions regs, Chris
BTW: "Open in the same window" is an odd description. Nautilus is supposed to always open a new window - it's just some close-behind magic. regs, Chris
I cant really split them up cause they are mostly interdependent (eg Bookmarks and pathbar depend on folder action beings in there) and thats why its done as a big patch and not a series of little ones. As everything is optional ( 1,3,4,5 are switchable and it doesn't change the defaults) I dont see why it shouldn't get added as a whole. BTW, "open in same window" is a perfectly sane option (even windows gives the user the choice).
Created attachment 29394 [details] [review] megapatch 2 I have added a tweak to the pathbar to make it behave more like the file chooser when dealing with the home path. The full home path (eg /home/jamie) is now replaced with a single Home button (with home stock icon). This helps insulate the unix hierarchy from ordinary users.
*** Bug 145588 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Open in the same window si NOT a sane approach: how can you save position and dimensions? Moving and stretching around the window? I much prefer the close behind as it is now.
Created attachment 33493 [details] [review] MegaPatch for Nautilus 2.8.1 Improved version of the Megapatch which now compiles on Nautilus 2.8.1 New Features: * Bookmarks now integrated into Places menu * Bookmarks now use GTK bookmarks (same as the file chooser) * Bookmarks auto update in Nautilus when changed in file chooser * "Copy Files To" added to selection popup * "Move Files To" added to selection popup * New "Plus" tab in preferences * Open a terminal window using current nautilus directory via Ctrl+shift+T Installation instructions: Note this will only install on Nautilus 2.8.1 so retrieve that version from CVS prior to adding this patch (use CVS commands below) - cvs -z3 co -r NAUTILUS_2_8_1 nautilus patch -p0 < patch_filename ./autogen.sh make make install enjoy! jamie.
We really appreciate your great efforts, but what I said is still true: This will never ever be merged at once, since it just touches too many edges. It would be great if you could resubmit a pathbar patch, which (hopefully) doesn't interfere with all those other changes. Next, you could split out the bookmarks stuff, and shift the "move/copy files to" stuff into a third patch, having a fourth "Plus tab" patch. The Open in terminal part doesn't seem to be appropriate, considering that there is an extension for this (nautilus-open-terminal).
Most of this has already been integrated into Nautilus due to your great fragmentation work. The useful remainder will hopefully soon be integrated as well.