Re: Bug 306417: "Resuming session spawns spatial nautilus windows regardless of their state"

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Sat, 2005-06-04 at 15:34 +0000, Paul Sliwowski wrote:
> Hi, I am new to the list and I am try to fix Bug 306417: "Resuming
> session spawns spatial nautilus windows regardless of their state". I
> know where the problem is, but I not sure how I should fix this. 
> 
> The problem I having is how the browser mode is checked. In nautilus,
> browser mode is a global condition on startup on all urls, and not on
> idividual urls. This causes problems in "save-yourself" signal handler
> for what mode to open up for all the urls in.
> 
> I figure add 2 new commandline switches to open a list of urls in
> spatial or browser mode, so to open up urls in both spatial and browser
> the command would be nautilus --open-spatial <urls-list> --open-browser
> <urls-list>.

there is already a --browser switch. Maybe we can just make it order
dependent. So that "nautilus /dir1 /dir2 --browser /dir3 /dir4" opens
dir 1+2 spatial and dir 3+4 in browser.

> In general, it seems like going to browser mode is a hack. Shouldn't the
> gconf entry be a default_mode for unspecified urls instead of
> always_use_browser for all urls; and have switches to handle opening
> urls in a specific way like mention above.

I'm not sure what you mean by this? People generally use the gconf keys
because they never ever, over my dead body want to see a spatial window.
For people not setting the gconf key we should make it possible to open
both spatial and browser windows as they want.

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