Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > comp.os.linux.advocacy > #451607

Re: No more launching files from Nautilus

Show all headers | View raw

On Thu, 17 May 2018 11:15:53 -0500, Your Friendly Neighbourhood Puppy
Whistle Holder Emeritus ?? <root@127.0.0.1> wrote:

>On Thu, 17 May 2018 00:38:50 GMT, LO AND BEHOLD; "Melzzzzz
><Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com>" determined that the following was of great
>importance and subsequently decided to freely share it with us in
><ua4LC.390321$LD3.139806@fx18.am4>:
> 
>>On 2018-05-17, owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> wrote:
>>>Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> wrote:
>>>>On 2018-05-16, owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> wrote:
>>>>>>On 2018-05-16, Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> wrote:
>>>>>>><https://news.softpedia.com/news/gnome-devs-to-remove-the-ability-to-lau
>>>>>>>nch-apps-from-the-nautilus-file-manager-521137.shtml> OR
>>>>>>><https://goo.gl/PDuajk> ----- GNOME Devs to Remove the Ability to
>>>>>>>Launch Apps from the Nautilus File Manager ----- If they really do this
>>>>>>>that seems absurd... but maybe it is just a developer being extreme to 
>>>>>>>try to push the importance of security? 
>>>>>>I think that this is getting ridicilous. After removing ability to
>>>>>>display icons on desktop, this is another one. What this means
>>>>>>actually? I can't open video via nautilus any more?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>Gnome peaked at version 2. 
>>>>I use Gnome 3, with dash2dock and topicons+ it is usable. But they
>>>>getting it unusable with each new revision ;( There is always nemo, but
>>>>then again if I use nemo, why not cinnamon? 
>>>Have you tried mate?
>>
>>I use mate on TrueOS. Gnome 3 has classic mode that mimics 2 and mate,
>>but I really don't like it, as I used Gnome 2 long time. It's just that
>>I am used to super+search instead of menus. Also with dash I just click
>>app so I don't have to super+click every time. Alright, I used to do
>>plain console until 2001, when I saw that GUI is not bad, that is I can
>>run terminal and keep GUI applications open. Well, alright, now there
>>is everyhing that can be done from console but I am not only user of
>>this computer ;)
>
>i recently experimented with a trueOS install and found it to be hacked-together garbage.  did an update with pkg (instead of crappy gui updater) and i think it hosed the zfs boot partition.  i can't be sure because even on the first boot after install there were all kinds of errors on initial boot of the kernel (though it would still boot).
>
>i reinstalled with freebsd 11.1-RELEASE instead of the trueOS crap.  the stupid sysAdm bullshit was the final nail in the trueOS coffin for me.  why does anybody need this shit?  you set up an admin group and add users to it... why the shit should root user (or any other user with "admin" permissions) have to re-authenticate after login to administer the system??
>
>have any of you guys tried using fvwm as a window manager?  ...or do window managers that can fit onto a 3-1/2" floppy disk not have enough bloated crap for you?
>
>similarly, i quickly quit using gnome shit in 1997 and use fvwm on every one of my *nix installs.

I've never used fvwm but it looks like a highly customizable window
manager from the few screenshots I've viewed.

Back to comp.os.linux.advocacy | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

No more launching files from Nautilus Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-05-16 15:48 -0700
  Re: No more launching files from Nautilus Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> - 2018-05-16 23:06 +0000
    Re: No more launching files from Nautilus owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2018-05-16 23:14 +0000
      Re: No more launching files from Nautilus Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> - 2018-05-16 23:25 +0000
        Re: No more launching files from Nautilus owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2018-05-17 00:16 +0000
          Re: No more launching files from Nautilus Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> - 2018-05-17 00:38 +0000
            Re: No more launching files from Nautilus owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2018-05-17 02:12 +0000
            Re: No more launching files from Nautilus Doomsdrzej <.m@nsn.s> - 2018-05-17 08:45 -0400
              Re: No more launching files from Nautilus Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-05-17 07:01 -0700
            Re: No more launching files from Nautilus Your Friendly Neighbourhood Puppy Whistle Holder Emeritus 🐶笛 <root@127.0.0.1> - 2018-05-17 11:15 -0500
              Re: No more launching files from Nautilus Doomsdrzej <.m@nsn.s> - 2018-05-17 13:40 -0400
            Re: No more launching files from Nautilus RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2018-05-23 20:35 +0000
              Re: No more launching files from Nautilus Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-05-23 13:47 -0700
          Re: No more launching files from Nautilus Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-05-16 19:48 -0700
            Re: No more launching files from Nautilus Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> - 2018-05-17 03:02 +0000
              Re: No more launching files from Nautilus Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-05-16 20:14 -0700
              Re: No more launching files from Nautilus Doomsdrzej <.m@nsn.s> - 2018-05-17 08:55 -0400
                Re: No more launching files from Nautilus Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-05-17 07:02 -0700
      Re: No more launching files from Nautilus Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-05-18 02:43 -0700
    Re: No more launching files from Nautilus Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-05-16 19:46 -0700
  Re: No more launching files from Nautilus owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2018-05-16 23:12 +0000
    Re: No more launching files from Nautilus Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-05-16 19:45 -0700
    Re: No more launching files from Nautilus Doomsdrzej <.m@nsn.s> - 2018-05-17 08:39 -0400
      Re: No more launching files from Nautilus owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2018-05-17 15:56 +0000
        Re: No more launching files from Nautilus Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-05-17 09:12 -0700
        Re: No more launching files from Nautilus Doomsdrzej <.m@nsn.s> - 2018-05-17 13:38 -0400
          Re: No more launching files from Nautilus owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2018-05-17 18:23 +0000
            Re: No more launching files from Nautilus Doomsdrzej <.m@nsn.s> - 2018-05-17 16:41 -0400
              Re: No more launching files from Nautilus owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2018-05-17 21:08 +0000

csiph-web