[K12OSN] Fedora Core 5 Released

[Petre Scheie]

Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 11:11 -0600, Petre Scheie wrote:
>> Saw this in the release notes:
>>
>> "GNOME 2.12 has removed the terminal option from the desktop context menu. 
>> nautilus-open-terminal in Fedora Extras repository provides a enhanced replacement for 
>> those who require it."
>>
>> Do I understand this correctly, that there isn't a terminal app in Gnome's menu anymore? 
>>   That seems hard to believe, so I must be mistaken.  The notes then describe using yum 
>> to install nautilus-open-terminal.  But...how does one use yum without a terminal?
>>
> No.
> 
> There is no longer a terminal entry in the right-click-on-desktop menu.
> 
> There *is* a terminal entry in the main menus.  If it is the same as
> FC4, it's Applications::System Tools::Terminal.  I usually create a
> panel button for this anyway.
> 
> Additionally, there is a nautilus plugin in Fedora Extras
> (nautilus-actions) that allows you to add a nautilus-right-click-menu
> entry for the terminal or any other program.
> 
> -Toshio

Okay, that makes more sense.  I never use the right-click-menu to start a terminal; like 
you, I create a panel button for it.  See, I knew I was misunderstanding what the notes 
said. ;-)  Thanks for the clarification.

Petre