No nautilus pref selection for default browser mode (was FC6T3 Install results)

Gerry Tool gstool at earthlink.net
Fri Sep 15 01:21:51 UTC 2006


Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 11:06 -0500, Gerry Tool wrote:
>> 4. There is no longer a check box in the nautilus Properties > Behavior
>> tab to set nautilus to open in browser format by default.  This means
>> each time I want a browser (95% of the time) I need to right-click and
>> select an option.  Is there another way to set the default?
> 
> There's an option in gconf I believe
> 
> Jeremy
> 
Yes, once I realized I hadn't selected gconf-editor for installation, 
installed it with yum, found my way through the XML tree, and checked 
the box, browser mode is now default on my FC6T3 system.

However, I think it is a serious omission to not have this as a 
selection in the nautilus Edit > Preferences > Behavior tab as it is in 
FC5 and as I believe it was in FC6T2 - too late to check since I 
overwrote it with FC6T3.

The first harm this omission will cause is create another round of 
argument about spatial mode being forced on people who do not like it. I 
do like spatial mode for some uses, but after using it as default for 
more than a year, I recently decided that browser mode was more useful 
to me.

Do I need to report this as a bug against nautilus?

Thanks.

Gerry




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