[Nautilus-list] Re: gnocam camera:// moniker and thumbnailing

[Michael Rothwell <rothwell holly-springs nc us>]

Hmm.. I just opened Nautilus by right-clicking on my "home" directory and choosing "open." I then opened the preferences menu. Then I opened it again. Then I thought to look on another desktop. :) Perhaps Nautilus could be taught to open its dialogs in the same place as teh current window. And is there a wy to make Nautilus open a new window if there's not already a window with that view when opening desktop items?

I'll look at the thumbnails problem.

-M

On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 08:32:49AM -0700, John Sullivan wrote:
> on 5/9/01 5:20 AM, David Megginson at david megginson com wrote:
> 
> > Michael Rothwell writes:
> > 
> >> Another problem is, Nautilus cannot make a ".thumbnails" directory
> >> on the camera, so it cannot display thumbnails at all. It might be
> >> nice to have nautilus use a substitute directory in my home dir for
> >> read-only media like cameras and CDROMs, so that it can still show
> >> thumbnails for images on read-only media. Maybe
> >> ~.thumbnails/proxy/camera:__previews s20/IMG_0336.JPG.png"
> > 
> > I think it would be a good idea to use a substitute directory
> > *always*.  As a basic principle, Nautilus shouldn't pollute any
> > directories it doesn't own, except for the standard configuration
> > points ($HOME, $HOME/gnome, $HOME/.gnome-desktop).  With Nautilus 1.0,
> > I had the very unpleasant experience of burning a CD-ROM and finding
> > unwanted .nautilus-metafile.xml files all over it afterwards.
> > 
> > 
> > All the best,
> > 
> > 
> > David
> 
> You can set a preference so that Nautilus puts all the nautilus-metafiles
> into a single directory. The preference is the confusingly-named "Make
> Folder Appearance Details Public" and is found only at the Advanced user
> level in the Speed Tradeoffs pane. If you set this to Never then Nautilus
> will put all the nautilus-metafiles into a single directory.
> 
> (You can also turn off thumbnailing, but there's not currently an option to
> leave thumbnailing on but have all the thumbnails stored in a single
> directory. Perhaps some enterprising hacker would like to add that feature.)
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
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