Re: Disabling the padlock icon for read-only .desktop files

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 21 Jul 2009, at 13:49, Calum wrote:

> find /usr/share/icons/gnome/ -iname "*nowrite*" -exec rm {} \;
>
> ... works perfectly.

Just be aware that the danger of this (or indeed Shaun's) approach is  
that there may be other applications that wish to use the nowrite  
emblems as well, although I'm not aware of any off the top of my head.

> Is this not something that should perhaps be included in GConf?

Gconf still tends to be reasonably (and intentionally) free of "every  
other option we can think of", so we'd probably want a better reason  
than "it looks unfriendly" to add a gconf key.  User-unfriendliness is  
certainly a valid concern, but it would really be better to fix it so  
that the necessary information is conveyed in a more elegant way,  
rather than just providing a hidden Unbreak Nautilus option.   
(Whatever a more elegant way might be; I don't have any specific ideas.)

By all means file a bug/request against nautilus in  
bugzilla.gnome.org, though, and people can discuss it further there.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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