On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 19:34 -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote:
On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 19:16 -0700, Teak Billard wrote:
> What was the purpose? Is it that gnome would like
> people to move away from using terminal commands and
> stick with the GUI? Having a powerful terminal so
> easily accessible is what makes Linux attractive to
> me.
I suspect it has more to do with consistent UI design.
The terminal is an application, Applications are launched from the
Application menu.
>From a strictly UI perspective, it's probably proper to do what they are
doing. It's just legacy users who are already so use to it being
available the old way, and installing that nautilus-openterminal package
gives it back to us (though I have a surprising number of untitled
folders on my desktop ... ;)
I don't know the real reason, but I suspect it was UI design reasons.
As someone involved in the initial Fedora discussion about this, I
recall that the rationale for removing it from the menu was as follows:
* The terminal is a power user tool (which is why people on this list
will miss it in the desktop menu) and as such wasn't part of the primary
goals of GNOME, to design a desktop for users.
* The current implementation was limited and by having it in a separate
package you could do it much better. The nautilus-open-terminal package
(yum install it) not only offers a terminal from the desktop, but from
each nautilus window (and with the exception of the desktop, it defaults
to the location your in. Much nicer.
* You can get to a terminal simply by setting up keystrokes using
Desktop > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts, which power users would find
easy to do and doesn't require you having access to either the desktop
or a nautilus window.
Yes, you'll need to relearn some knee jerk habits, but overall this is a
good decision (and I arked up about it when it first happened too).
Rodd
--
"It's a fine line between denial and faith.
It's much better on my side"