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Nautilus notes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Feb 4 15:23:45 2004
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 15:23:41 -0500
Message-Id: <200402042023.i14KNfev016165@equal-rites.mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: release-team@MIT.EDU
To see how the 9.3 desktop might look with nautilus, you'll first need
to do the following:
gconftool-2 -s -t bool /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop true
It doesn't look like you can set this preference with the control
center or from within Nautilus. Setting this preference will disable
the non-nautilus GNOME mechanism for setting the background, so you
may want to reverse it when you're done with:
gconftool-2 -u /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop
Anyway, after turning on that preference, run "nautilus -n &". It
should redraw the background and put up three icons up on the upper
left: a "Start Here" icon, a "Trash" icon, and a "<username>'s Home"
icon.
On Linux (where we use the native nautilus right now), the "Start
Here" folder is empty. On Solaris, it contains the GNOME applications
menu (which is pretty much empty), a Desktop Preferences icon which
appears to work fine, and two other preferences icons which are empty.
We probably want to arrange not to display the Start Here icon, or to
point it at /var/athena/menus so that it contains the same content as
the foot menu (you can try typing "/var/athena/menus" into the
location bar to see what that would look like).
On Solaris, if Nautilus is running, it will intercept
gnome-control-center invocations and display its desktop settings
window, which should be fine. (Linux should exhibit the same behavior
in 9.3 if we build our own Nautilus, which we will probably have to
do.)
Neither the native Linux version of Nautilus nor the one we build for
Solaris seems to have HTML display support. I'm not sure why that is.
