Re: Several comments on panel, nautilus and evolution

[Steve Fox <drfickle k-lug com>]

Steve Fox wrote:
> 
> Darin Adler wrote:
> >
> > on 9/1/00 1:16 AM, Gérard Milmeister at gemi@bluewin.ch wrote:
> > > There has been a tendency of programs creating directories in the
> > > home directory *without* a dot prefix. How about Nautilus and
> > > Evolution using .nautilus, .trash and .evolution instead of
> > > Nautilus, Trash and Evolution or at least giving the user the
> > > choice of naming these directories.
> >
> > We'll consider changing this for Nautilus. The report we'll use to track
> > this suggestion is <http://bugzilla.eazel.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2687>.
> 
> I _really_ hope that the developers consider this. I find it extremely
> annoying. I know it was brought up before and the answer that was given
> was "Netscape does it and noone bitches about that". That's a totally
> lame excuse because NS also let's you change it. More importantly, NS is
> not Free Software and therefore we can't change it. Other than that,
> Nautilus and Evolution rule :)

I just realized I didn't phrase this correctly. This statement was made
about Evolution on the Evolution mailing list, not by Nautilus
developers. Sorry for the confusion.

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Steve Fox
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