On 21/02/13 15:10, Colin Law wrote:
On 21 February 2013 14:56, Gareth France <[email protected]> wrote:
I've taken the plunge and upgraded, mostly out of boredom I think. It seems
rather shakey at the moment. Sound works, then it doesn't. Intel video needs
much prodding before it's usable and today everything was running at half
speed for a while.
However what intrigues me is that there are a number of subtle behaviour
changes and I'm unsure if they are intentional or not. I have a bash script
sat on my desktop, I double click it and it performs magic that I am too
lazy to do myself. Now I have upgraded it will load in Gedit if I double
click. Right clicking reveals no useful options and I have had to resort to
loading a terminal to launch it. Is this by design? If so, what is the logic
behind it?
In 12.10 this was controlled via Nautilus, Edit > Preferences >
Behaviour > Run Executable Files when opened. Raring includes a major
upgrade to Nautilus and they have removed lots of useful stuff (not
the Ubuntu developers, the Nautilus developers) so it may no longer be
there or may have moved. Have a look.
Colin
Yes, I read about the dumbing down of Nautilus with mild concern. For
those who are interested there is only one menu now, named after the
folder you are browsing, within this are sub menus. Preferences is the
choice you want. You can choose execute, don't execute (the default) or
ask each time. Also hidden files is no longer a choose each time you run
it thing, you set it in much the same way and it stays like that. Oh,
and be interested, as you'll be here soon too, lol.
This style of choices reminds me far too much of Windows. I liked the
way hidden files was easily selected when you need it, but didn't hang
around once you were done.
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