Nautilus Enhancements

I've noticed, increasingly that in some applications the GtkFilechooser will not show any remote locations I am connected to, when they are shown and open in nautilus. This is real pain for web development!

I agree that this is a pain, but unfortunately not all apps use gnome-vfs for reading and writing files. Gnome-vfs has been around since GNOME 1.4, but it didn't become really useful until GNOME 2.6 when gnome-keyring was introduced, and the new gtk+ file chooser had support for remote file systems. Hopefully app-support for gnome-vfs will improve in the future.

I agree, but only for the browser mode. The browser should not respect each folders spatial view or background settings.

I just hate the GTK FileChooser 'cause it doesn't show any dotfiles or such, and I haven't yet learned any way to make it show them.

Click with the right mouse button on the file list and choose "Show hidden files"

It's a new feature. NOTHING is perfect on the first revision. It takes years of use and suggestions to make a product usable and polished. I can definitley say that spatial nautilus really works for me, and that I can't stand having to use browser mode. When I'm working on a windows computer and using browser mode in explorer, I get actively annoyed. That's a sign of a good product...when you miss it when it's not available.

Of course, the easier thing users do, is open Nautilus, select all the files with a lock (or only those they want to modify), go to properties, and change the write permission.

Who are YOU to say what someone does or doesn't need?

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Sorry, but what are you talking about? if I have a bunch of files which need recursive permission change, it doesn't matter if I am a newcomer, an oldcomer or the personal secretary of the Pope: they *have* to be changed, so that I can use the files, and that's it.

What you're really saying is "Newcomers are not allowed to do this because we haven't implemented a reasonable GUI to do that yet, go learn the CLI" which is an admission of failure before anything else.

Ciao

Should I understand Gnome is supposed to only be used by newcomers then?

Should I understand that Gnome is supposed to only be used by well-experienced users then?

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"It is better for people to think you are a fool, then for you to open your mouth and remove all doubt."

But do you want to exclude newcomers?

"Well, mom, to change anything from the backup cd I made you, you need to open a terminal, navigate to the current directory using the 'cd' command, and issue the command 'chmod -R 755 ' where is the name of the top-level directory containing all your files and sub-folders."

No. What is needed is a simple interface that won't scare the living christ out of non-technical users. People feel a lot more comfortable about clicking a check box than they do about issuing a chmod.

I'm pretty savvy around the computer. I've been using Gnome since 1.2 and use it to surf/email/im, develop apps, remote admin my server, and do pretty much every thing a technical user does during the course of their day. I have four computers, all of which run Gnome. So yes, I know how to issue a chmod -R. But does that imply that I WANT to? If I have the mouse in hand, and I see a folder with a lock on it, I want to change the permissions right there and then. Right-click, permissions, +write. Done. The alternative is to open up a terminal, navigate to /path/to/very/deeply/nested/dir/that/I/have/a/nasty/habit/of/doing, and then issue a chmod -R. This is a HASSLE. This is me switching to keyboard mode, figuring out where the hell I was sitting when I was looking in nautilus, issuing a cd to match that path (which is a pissoff in itself), and issuing another command. This is my computer getting in my way. Gnome is supposed to be all about making the computer more usable and letting me get my work done. That's why I love it and that's why I use it. It's clean, consistent, and does exactly what I want. That's why something like this recursive file permissions thing really jars me. When something doesn't work like I expect it to, it's a real pissoff.

I'd love to see this bug resolved. It's one of the most common complaints that people have about nautilus. I know I'd use it at least several times a week if it got implemented, and it would provide functionality that really should be inherently present in a file manager.

Drag+Drop with the middle mouse button is probably what you're looking for

Now that is a feature that would work well in Nautilus! It could also be extended to filter based on date, size, file type, etc (since the screenie shows a lot of negative space, aching to be filled). ;)

I hope the author ports his patch over to the new Nautilus when it comes out. ^_^

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"It is better for people to think you are a fool, then for you to open your mouth and remove all doubt."

Some of these enhancements are for spatial Nautilus, and some are enchancements to Nautilus when in browser mode.

And what is he doing on a very much GNOME only site:-)

I think the same. Maybe pathbar is cool, but I don't find it really productive. I can move back by simply double/triple clicking 'up' or 'back' buttons, or even faster by using my mouse side buttons. Location bar is for totally different purpose, can be used faster and it doesn't require mouse.

I hope pathbar is an add-on, not a replacement.

That pathbar is pretty useless, though it doesn't bother me much. I don't usually use the normal location bar either, but atleast it lets me type in the path I want without having to learn any keycombos first. Though, I use backspace the most often ^^
-WareKala