On Sun, 2003-04-27 at 07:26, Jeff Waugh wrote: > <quote who="Colin Walters"> > > > > It is far easier to 'fuck things up' in a GUI than it is on the command > > > line. Deleting /dev or /usr in a file manager, for instance, or even > > > just moving them. > > > > This of course raises the question of why people are able to do those > > kinds of things by default. Windows XP makes you go to difficulty to even > > see these kinds of "system" files, much less delete them. I think that's > > a rather good idea. > > I agree, especially given that (more often than not), normal users can't do > anything useful to these files anyway. They're basically just noise (the > treeview suffers greatly from this). > > There has been talk about rooting the treeview on ~, and having additional > roots such as System, Network, etc. This would definitely help (don't have > System shown by default, perhaps). > > > (When was the last time anyone looked at /dev/ in Nautilus?) > > Heh. Nautilus handles that brilliantly -> too many files. ;-)
Nautilus 2.2.3.1 manages fine. Even let me select 'em all, too :-) P. -- Peter Whysall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The IWETHEY Project: http://z.iwethey.org/forums
