Reducing the number of special uris in gnome

[Dave Bordoley <bordoley msu edu>]

Right now we have 6 special uris that i know of.

start-here:
preferences:
applications:
system-settings:
server-settings:
trash:

In general this is bad from a ui perspective, since they are not
connected in a meaningful way (no hierarchy like a file system just
random locations). I have a solution. 

The first 5 in the list really all serve the same function. They are all
used to launch applications. Why not just remove all of them except for
applications://, the directory where apps are meant to be launched from
anyway, they all double the functionality of this directory anyway
(there is no app available from these directories that i cannot launch
from the applications directory that I know of. Why created confusion
lets just have one place to launch apps from in nautilus).

To facilitate a good ui I propose that we add applications to the the go
menu as well as the nautilus toolbar. This will make this directory
easily accessible for users. In addition by doing this we create a
hierarchal directory structure for launching apps. This is nice as
applications:// can be added to the tree view as a second root node.

If we do this we reduce the number of special gnome uris to two,
applications:// and trash://. 

I expect that this will be much more usable from a users perspective.

dave