[TriLUG] scripts and the gnome desktop

[Pete at Soper.US]

I knew my msg would instantly make me feel blind. I recall now looking at
the "places" menu a few revs back and finding smb4k and dolphin better, so
I'd trained myself out of even seeing this menu! It's now the size of a bus
tail light. And Places->Network seems to just work now for browsing other
systems. Nice.

Yes, apart from clutter I dislike root window launcher icons since Gnome
made it trivial to drag/drop onto the tray (as I suspect you know). I no
longer have to think about avoiding some piece of the desktop to keep a key
launcher from being covered up, and Gnome does the right thing if the
original root window icon is trashed.

-Pete

On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Kevin Hunter <hunteke at earlham.edu> wrote:

> At 5:47pm -0500 Sun, 01 Nov 2009, Pete Soper wrote:
>
>> When I made a launcher to run /usr/bin/nautilus it was put on the desktop
>> with the icon image you'd expect. Now I can find it. :-)
>>
>
> Our minds work in different ways.  :-)  Nautilus is just a file-viewer, but
> the default one of the Ubuntu desktop.  I believe you can access it via your
> "Places" menu.  For example
>
> Places->Home Folder
>
> Should bring up a nautilus view of your home directory.
>
> I'm not a big fan of unnecessary clutter on my desktop.  Which is ironic,
> see, since I have so much of it there.  Sigh.  One of these I'll get back to
> those papers I've been meaning to read ...
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Kevin
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