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Nautilus Enhancements

Submitted by stro on Tue, 2005-07-05 12:28. Nautilus
Nautilus

Some new enhancements are finding their way into Nautilus. The first is new tree functionality complete with auto-expand for dnd to the spatial Nautilus list view, much like what is seen here on a Mac. Nautilus now has the ability to create a new file when dragging and dropping text into a Nautilus window. The next enhancement is a patch that adds GTK2 Bookmarks like seen in the new GTK file chooser to Nautilus. Also this patch adds a new sidepanel plug-in for the Nautilus browser that mimics the GTK FileChooser. And finally this patch adds the pathbar as seen in the GTK2 file chooser to the Nautilus browser. Screenshot of the latter 2 features mentioned is here.

logic?

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sat, 2005-07-09 15:40.

The logic thing would be, that files COPIED from a CD or any other device, are rw for the user who copied them. This would be a logical choise.

Why is this a logical thing to do?
1. While copying a file, the original will be still available. So any manipulating operation on the file (e.g. delete, trunc, rename, etc.) should be allowed. I can easily get another original copy from the original source.
2. What do I do 8normally), when I copy a file from Cd to my harddrive.
a) It is a backup file, so I will use it as regualr file in the future, and I need write access (in most cases).
b) It is a movie or a sound file, and I want to listen to it, recode it, use it to create something new and then I dump it. Ah, before I can dump it, it should be writable.

Also a user knows that a CD is a permanent medium, but everything on the harddrive should be removable. As long as no user is explicitly saying "No".

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