Re: [Usability] About the "places" menu

[Daniel Borgmann <spark-mailinglists web de>]

On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 15:37 +0100, Maurizio Colucci wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a couple of questions.
> 
> 1. According to the following gnome 2.10 picture
> 
> http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=234&slide=28
> 
> it seems the places menu is still in spatial nautilus. I thought there 
> was a general agreement this feature contradicts the spatial principles, 
> and a places menu should be only located in the panel. How come?

Why should it contradict the spatial principles? It just makes more
sense to have the menu available without opening a folder first.
However, right now the desktop Places menu contains some elements that
the folder Places menu doesn't include and the other way around...
That's a big problem in my opinion.

> 
> 2. Will the places menu (the one in the panel) be able to contain 
> bookmarks? It doesn't seem so from the picture
> 
> http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=234&slide=28

If it works like in Ubuntu, then the desktop Places menu will include
the Gtk bookmarks (either directly or in a sub-menu if there are too
many) and Ubuntu also has a patch to show them in the folder Places
menu. However, this somewhat bothers me... The Gtk bookmarks are
becoming more and more a central part of the desktop, but right now
there is no obvious way to manage them besides the Gtk file selector? Is
there already a good plan to change this, because I don't think that it
should be an afterthought.

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Daniel Borgmann <spark mayl de>