On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 16:51 +1300, Brad Beveridge wrote:
> I am so far quite liking Nautilus's "open a window" idea,
It is called âspatial browsingâ [1]

> Is there a way to have the windows resize to fit the folder content
> upon opening?
The windows will remember the state you left them in. This means when
you reopen a folder it will have the same size, layout, and position
that it had when it was closed. Unfortunately I could not find a gconf
key that set the default size of the open-folder windows. (The size of
the sidebar, yes, but not of the windows.)

> As a side note - although the gconfig stuff looks like a windows 
> registry, is somebody (please, please) able to reassure me that the 
> backend storage for it is not one huge binary file like windows is?
Typically the gconf information is stored in a hierarchy of XML files
[2]. In theory the gconf could use a relational database or LDAP (or,
heaven forbid, DAP) to store the data, but I have not heard of this ever
being done.

[1] http://www.bytebot.net/geekdocs/spatial-nautilus.html
    http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7344
[2] http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/

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Michael JasonSmith                  http://www.ldots.org/


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