On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 23:04 +0200, Ionut Cotoi wrote: > To make everybody happy I think you should consider adding a key to > gconf from where the "poweruser" can add Open Terminal back to the > Desktop context menu (like for nautilus browser/spatial mode).
The thing is, as it's been said, the current behavior doesn't make sense. I think one can look at the terminal two ways from a UI perspective-- 1) The Terminal is a regular, non-document handling application, similar to the System Monitor, or Calculator. Under this system, the terminal should be launched like those apps. From the menu, or with a shortcut icon on the panel, or keystroke-- the only other external app invoked by the Desktop context menu is the background setter, which directly affects the desktop. 2) The Terminal is a folder-handling application, similar to a Nautilus window or a Gthumb window. In this case, it makes sense for the terminal to be invokable from any folder window (including the Desktop), and it's inconsistent to have it only accessible from the Desktop, and the built-in Desktop context menu opens the terminal in the home folder whether or not the Desktop is Home. Christian's extension handles this system quite well. I don't think anyone's debating the relative merits of either (I'm certainly not, both are useful). But Nautilus is currently in sort of a gray murk between the two, and that's not good. Terminal opening shouldn't be built-in, since it's adding another item to an already-very-large context menu, but the extension is there for those who want to use it. -- nautilus-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
