[Nautilus-list] Re: selecting a new view even if the

[Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com>]

On Wednesday, June 20, 2001, at 01:06  PM, Seth Aaron Nickell wrote:

> This actually reminds me... We need a way of selecting a new view even if 
> the
> default view crashes. Occasionally if I'm not careful when updating 
> things I break
> the Mozilla view, and I know a few people have never gotten the mozilla 
> view to
> work quite right (probably funky mozilla installations)...but its nice to 
> still
> have DAV available. Any thoughts on how one might provide this capability?
>  Maybe
> rather than displaying nothing when a view crashes we should do something 
> like
> evolution and display a "view" that says "The View Failed to load, yada 
> yada
> yada". That way the user could select a new view from the view menu.

For cases where you have an icon that leads to a particular view, you can 
use Open With. But it's a good point that there's no equivalent for Open 
With when you type the location into the location bar.

    -- Darin