Rodney Dawes wrote: > Perhaps we should also look at how people use the places menu, and why > they find it so necessary to have. Personally, I never use the places > menu, as it doesn't fit how I use my computer. I am not sure that any > of the larger market of users would either. It seems like a hacker > feature to me. > Here's an example use case. I've got a 1000+ collection of fiction I've been cataloguing using a combination of Alexandria and LibraryThing. I scan the book covers where I need to and have got the covers folder in my places menu. This means that.
1. When I scan a book cover using GIMP/Xsane I can access the covers folder with a single double click in the GTK file dialog. 2. When I want to upload the cover file to LibraryThing I also have that same quick method of access. It really does make a difference having these short cut folders available, especially when this is a long term project I've been working on a bit at a time. The advantage being it gives you a way to cut through the folder hierarchy and lift some folders up to the top, without cluttering your home directory with symlinks. I also have a high level src folder in places, for untaring source tarballs, a music folder at the root of my ogg vorbis files. It's useful enough that I too had to give up using the gnome-main-menu applet because of it lacking this. I did try as I liked some of the functionality but without that it made things more difficult. So really the useful combination for me is the places menu + places appearing in GTK file dialogs. ian. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
