On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 21:14 -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 10:31 +1000, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 07:37 -0400, Build System wrote:
>
> > nautilus-2.11.3-1
> > -----------------
> > * Mon Jul 11 2005 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> 2.11.3-1
> > - Update to 2.11.3
>
> Ah, this might be a dumb question, but what happened to the Open
> Terminal option when right clicking on the desktop in Gnome?
>
> Has this been intentionally removed? If it has, can the user re-enable
> it on a user by user basis. This is about the only option I use in this
> context menu, so it's loss is a great usability issue for me. I can
> however see how the average user may not need it, but I'd still like to
> think that users who do want it might be able to have it.
>
> Of course it might just be an accident, in which case I look forward to
> it's return soon (and if it is a mistake, I'll bugzilla it).
This change has been planned for a while now. Just add a launcher to a
panel.
I have a launcher on the panel, but to be brutally honest, I don't want
to have to travel to to top of the screen each time I want to launch a
terminal. On a 1920x1200 screen, that top panel is a long way away when
you're using a trackpad style laptop mouse.
You could argue the same could be done with all the other options in
this menu and we could just do away with the menu. ;-] At least with
the gnome-terminal option, the resulting terminal is always visible. On
the other hand, the Create Folder option often creates a folder that
can't be seen as it's covered by windows, so it's arguably a little
pointless (this is probably a bug worth filing (new folder should always
appear on desktop where it's visible).
Can someone point to the thread where removing gnome-terminal was
discussed?
I know this seems a little
my-workflow-isn't-the-same-after-this-change-so-this-isn't-acceptable
but there are plenty of people who use terminals in gnome and I'm sure
that more than a few of them launch them this way. A gconf variable I
can set to re-add it to the menu would be more than acceptable.
Rodd
--
"It's a fine line between denial and faith.
It's much better on my side"