Where are my files?

"Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" johannbg at gmail.com
Mon Mar 28 09:13:33 UTC 2011


On 03/27/2011 01:26 PM, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> I have to admit it is not a really technical question and doesn't have
> much to do with development, but as the developers of gnome-shell are on
> this list, I'll ask my question here not only to get a reply but also to
> provide user feedback.
>
> We have been at Chemnitzer Linuxtage last weekend, one of the biggest
> community events in Germany. The audience ranges from newbies to real
> geeks.
>
> At the Fedora booth we had two Laptops to showcase the latest F15
> desktop. The most asked question - regardless of beginner or advanced
> user - was: "Where are my files?"
>
> So if you are in gnome-shell, how do you open a window of your home? We
> had 5 Fedora ambassadors there, all of them are package maintainers, we
> even had the German GNOME translation coordinator with us, but none of
> us was able to answer that question in an intuitive way. The only way we
> found was to use the search field. Is there no better way?
>
> One suggestion was to have a 'Places' tab besides 'Windows' and
> 'Applications' that includes the content of the old 'Places' menu. I
> guess it is already to late to implement this for F15, so what are we
> going to do? Can we at least have nautilus in the favorites?

I've had the same question thrown at me and after I pointed them out to 
start "Files" the first thing they tried to do was do drag the "Folders" 
they most used to the Favourites panel hence I think this could be 
solved elegantly by adding the ability to add folders to "Favourites".

JBG


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