Re: The Future of Nautilus: Show the filesystem

[Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>]

On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 16:48 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 14:04 +0100, Allan Day wrote:
> > > I don't think people, even technical should have to modify the default
> > > UI just to be able to do things they need doing. A setting like this is
> > > clearly not a "preference", its not about if you prefer it or not. Its
> > > something you need to use (or not), so hiding it as a preference is imho
> > > a bad idea.
> > 
> > We already have a precedent for this with hidden files. They are
> > required for many tasks.
> 
> Not that many, and additionally "View->show hidden files" is a lot more
> visible than a magic preference in some tab in the preference dialog.
> Its a regular, always visible menu item, and just scanning the menu
> items in the main menu will let you find this.

So a file system menu item is one possible approach. Or what about a
'Show hidden devices' menu item?

Allan

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