No nautilus pref selection for default browser mode (was FC6T3 Install results)

Gerry Tool gstool at earthlink.net
Fri Sep 15 02:06:45 UTC 2006


Gerry Tool wrote:
> Jeremy Katz wrote:
>> On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 11:06 -0500, Gerry Tool wrote:
>>> 4. There is no longer a check box in the nautilus Properties > Behavior
>>> tab to set nautilus to open in browser format by default.  This means
>>> each time I want a browser (95% of the time) I need to right-click and
>>> select an option.  Is there another way to set the default?
>>
>> There's an option in gconf I believe
>>
>> Jeremy
>>
> Yes, once I realized I hadn't selected gconf-editor for installation, 
> installed it with yum, found my way through the XML tree, and checked 
> the box, browser mode is now default on my FC6T3 system.
> 
> However, I think it is a serious omission to not have this as a 
> selection in the nautilus Edit > Preferences > Behavior tab as it is in 
> FC5 and as I believe it was in FC6T2 - too late to check since I 
> overwrote it with FC6T3.
> 
> The first harm this omission will cause is create another round of 
> argument about spatial mode being forced on people who do not like it. I 
> do like spatial mode for some uses, but after using it as default for 
> more than a year, I recently decided that browser mode was more useful 
> to me.
> 
> Do I need to report this as a bug against nautilus?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Gerry
> 
I'll answer myself.  This checkbox most likely requires that 
gconf-editor be installed.  It makes sense that it is so.  The checkbox 
now appears in the Behavior tab after installing gconf-editor.

Gerry




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