Nautilus in Browser mode by default?

[Eric Scott]

Yo;  I just installed Fedora 2 a couple weeks ago (Former 
Mandrake/SuSE/Debian tinkerer... fairly new to Linux in general), and 
have been trying to give the default Windows95/Old Mac OS spread-out 
method of Nautilus's windows a chance... and am about to blow over the 
top.  I find myself running "nautilus --browser"more and more often...

*How do I get Nautilus to run in browser mode by default, like it used 
to?* (The last version of RedHat I used was 8.0... and it was fine in 
this respect.)  Do people really like the spread-out method that much? 
Or did RedHat make an executive decision... isn't this a community 
project?  Bla.  Just in case you hadn't got it, the Explorer-98 style 
(Side pane, address bar, navigation buttons) was an ADVANCEMENT over the 
Explorer-95 style, IMHO (Yes yes, I'm assuming that Microsoft was the 
first to make file managers act like web browsers, but I could be wrong, 
after all, have they ever inovated before?).

Thanx,
    ES

[Jim]

selct your start button (bottom left corner)
goto -->System Tools --> Configuration Editor

select apps--> Nautilus-->Preferences

look for the key named "always_use_browser"
select the box next to always_use_browser to enable it.
read the message in the dialog box below after you enable it

On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 21:23:17 -0600, Eric Scott
 wrote:
> Yo;  I just installed Fedora 2 a couple weeks ago (Former
> Mandrake/SuSE/Debian tinkerer... fairly new to Linux in general), and
> have been trying to give the default Windows95/Old Mac OS spread-out
> method of Nautilus's windows a chance... and am about to blow over the
> top.  I find myself running "nautilus --browser"more and more often...
>
> *How do I get Nautilus to run in browser mode by default, like it used
> to?* (The last version of RedHat I used was 8.0... and it was fine in
> this respect.)  Do people really like the spread-out method that much?
> Or did RedHat make an executive decision... isn't this a community
> project?  Bla.  Just in case you hadn't got it, the Explorer-98 style
> (Side pane, address bar, navigation buttons) was an ADVANCEMENT over the
> Explorer-95 style, IMHO (Yes yes, I'm assuming that Microsoft was the
> first to make file managers act like web browsers, but I could be wrong,
> after all, have they ever inovated before?).
>
> Thanx,
>     ES
>
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> [e-mail]
> To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

[Eric Scott]

Jim wrote:
> selct your start button (bottom left corner)
> goto -->System Tools --> Configuration Editor
>
> select apps--> Nautilus-->Preferences
>
> look for the key named "always_use_browser"
> select the box next to always_use_browser to enable it.
> read the message in the dialog box below after you enable it
>
> On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 21:23:17 -0600, Eric Scott
>  wrote:
> > Yo;  I just installed Fedora 2 a couple weeks ago (Former
> > Mandrake/SuSE/Debian tinkerer... fairly new to Linux in general), and
> > have been trying to give the default Windows95/Old Mac OS spread-out
> > method of Nautilus's windows a chance... and am about to blow over the
> > top.  I find myself running "nautilus --browser"more and more often...
> >
> > *How do I get Nautilus to run in browser mode by default, like it used
> > to?* (The last version of RedHat I used was 8.0... and it was fine in
> > this respect.)  Do people really like the spread-out method that much?
> > Or did RedHat make an executive decision... isn't this a community
> > project?  Bla.  Just in case you hadn't got it, the Explorer-98 style
> > (Side pane, address bar, navigation buttons) was an ADVANCEMENT over the
> > Explorer-95 style, IMHO (Yes yes, I'm assuming that Microsoft was the
> > first to make file managers act like web browsers, but I could be wrong,
> > after all, have they ever inovated before?).
> >
> > Thanx,
> >    ES
> >
> > --
> > fedora-list mailing list
> > [e-mail]
> > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Thankyou! Now I feel like I'm using a *real* operating system again 
;-).   Forgive me for my ranting, but I was becoming quite frustrated. 
While we're on configuring gnome...  is there a way to, for example, set 
nautilus to use the flat-blue icons, but the rest of the system to use 
bluecurve?  Sounds odd, but I like the bluecurve icons in everything... 
except their folder and file icons that pop up in Nautilus.
    cheerio,
             ES

[Jonathan Berry]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 22:32:28 -0500, Jim  wrote:
[reordered]
> On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 21:23:17 -0600, Eric Scott  wrote:
> > Yo;  I just installed Fedora 2 a couple weeks ago (Former
> > Mandrake/SuSE/Debian tinkerer... fairly new to Linux in general), and
> > have been trying to give the default Windows95/Old Mac OS spread-out
> > method of Nautilus's windows a chance... and am about to blow over the
> > top.  I find myself running "nautilus --browser"more and more often...
> >
> > *How do I get Nautilus to run in browser mode by default, like it used
> > to?* (The last version of RedHat I used was 8.0... and it was fine in
> > this respect.)  Do people really like the spread-out method that much?
> > Or did RedHat make an executive decision... isn't this a community
> > project?  Bla.  Just in case you hadn't got it, the Explorer-98 style
> > (Side pane, address bar, navigation buttons) was an ADVANCEMENT over the
> > Explorer-95 style, IMHO (Yes yes, I'm assuming that Microsoft was the
> > first to make file managers act like web browsers, but I could be wrong,
> > after all, have they ever inovated before?).
> >
> > Thanx,
> >     ES
>
> selct your start button (bottom left corner)
> goto -->System Tools --> Configuration Editor
>
> select apps--> Nautilus-->Preferences
>
> look for the key named "always_use_browser"
> select the box next to always_use_browser to enable it.
> read the message in the dialog box below after you enable it
>
> --
> james lawrence

Ahh, thanks.  I was wondering this too.  By the way, Eric, FC3 with
Gnome 2.8 defaults to the browser mode automatically.  It seems
perhaps other people liked the browser mode better as well.  Now why
this isn't configurable in the "Preferences" for Nautilus is beyond
me.
Jonathan

[Dragos Neagu]

> > selct your start button (bottom left corner)
> > goto -->System Tools --> Configuration Editor
> >
> > select apps--> Nautilus-->Preferences
> >
> > look for the key named "always_use_browser"
> > select the box next to always_use_browser to enable it.
> > read the message in the dialog box below after you enable it

here's some insight on spatial and browser mode, and a command to
accomplish the same thing.

Their explanation makes sense, and i gave spatial a try, and my only
problem is that it spawns so many windows, and once it records the
geometry of a folder (length x width + X + Y), it will always follow
it.  I changed to browser mode, and fixed a geometry (600x400+0+0) by
editing the icon that I use to launch nautilus most often.  My only
problem with this is that i lost some neat things from spatial view,
and the toolbar, if i could make it smaller or remove it completely
that would be awesome :-)

[Dragos Neagu]

> here's some insight on spatial and browser mode, and a command to
> accomplish the same thing.

oops, forgot the link. http://www.fedorafaq.org/#nautilus-spatial

[Gene Wilson]

On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 00:05:08 -0600, Jonathan Berry  wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 22:32:28 -0500, Jim  wrote:
> [reordered]
> > On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 21:23:17 -0600, Eric Scott  wrote:
> > > Yo;  I just installed Fedora 2 a couple weeks ago (Former
> > > Mandrake/SuSE/Debian tinkerer... fairly new to Linux in general), and
> > > have been trying to give the default Windows95/Old Mac OS spread-out
> > > method of Nautilus's windows a chance... and am about to blow over the
> > > top.  I find myself running "nautilus --browser"more and more often...
> > >
> > > *How do I get Nautilus to run in browser mode by default, like it used
> > > to?* (The last version of RedHat I used was 8.0... and it was fine in
> > > this respect.)  Do people really like the spread-out method that much?
> > > Or did RedHat make an executive decision... isn't this a community
> > > project?  Bla.  Just in case you hadn't got it, the Explorer-98 style
> > > (Side pane, address bar, navigation buttons) was an ADVANCEMENT over the
> > > Explorer-95 style, IMHO (Yes yes, I'm assuming that Microsoft was the
> > > first to make file managers act like web browsers, but I could be wrong,
> > > after all, have they ever inovated before?).
> > >
> > > Thanx,
> > >     ES
> >
> > selct your start button (bottom left corner)
> > goto -->System Tools --> Configuration Editor
> >
> > select apps--> Nautilus-->Preferences
> >
> > look for the key named "always_use_browser"
> > select the box next to always_use_browser to enable it.
> > read the message in the dialog box below after you enable it
> >
> > --
> > james lawrence
>
> Ahh, thanks.  I was wondering this too.  By the way, Eric, FC3 with
> Gnome 2.8 defaults to the browser mode automatically.  It seems
> perhaps other people liked the browser mode better as well.  Now why
> this isn't configurable in the "Preferences" for Nautilus is beyond
> me.
> Jonathan

In FC3 you CAN change the behavior of Nautilus right from the
preferences menu.  Go to edit->preferences->behavior on the Nautilus
menu bar.  Check on "Always open in brower windows".  You don't need
to use the configuration manager for that anymore.

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi
> Or did RedHat make an executive decision... isn't this a community
> project?  Bla.

its very tiring to hear this boring argument. everybody assumes
everything is ruled by redhat and no, community protect does not
necessarily mean a democracy

[Brian Fahrlander]

On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 05:34 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi
> > Or did RedHat make an executive decision... isn't this a community
> > project?  Bla.
>
> its very tiring to hear this boring argument. everybody assumes
> everything is ruled by redhat and no, community protect does not
> necessarily mean a democracy

Yeah, though it bugs me that Galeon has lost favor, and Firefox has
been decided the replacement, I know deep-down Firefox has a better
long-term view; the program's modularity and it's ability to run on
MS/Mac/etc as well as the horde of Linux hardware is a long-term good
idea.  I just wish they'd look at Galeon's interface and emulate it a
little closer, that's all.