Am I the only one who is so used to the 'Right Click' + 'Back' option on Browsers that he keeps creating untitled folders everywhere in Nautilus?
However, on a browser, it is the more convenient 'Back' option:
I submitted this idea to the Ubuntu Brainstorm. However, it seems that people will not like modifying the context menu a lot. There is, nevertheless, a suggestions about including something akin to mouse gestures in Nautilus.
Do you have any interesting ideas/suggestions/opinions?
Update:
Somewhat inspired by this idea, I have proposed another solution: allowing custom menu items just like Thunar does:
A hack I can see here is using a nautilus-client much like rhythmbox-client (which I have used with some satisfaction), and using it like:
The only problem I see here is that Nautilus can have multiple instances running at the same time, so the nautilus-client will need to figure out which is the active Nautilus window (which has focus). I am not sure whether there is a cross-platform way of knowing which window has focus. Is there?
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musically_ut
Context menu in Nautilus 2.32.0 |
Context menu in Chrome (almost the same for Firefox and Internet Explorer too) |
I submitted this idea to the Ubuntu Brainstorm. However, it seems that people will not like modifying the context menu a lot. There is, nevertheless, a suggestions about including something akin to mouse gestures in Nautilus.
Do you have any interesting ideas/suggestions/opinions?
Update:
Somewhat inspired by this idea, I have proposed another solution: allowing custom menu items just like Thunar does:
Adding a custom menu item in the context menu (in Thunar) |
- nautilus-client --back
- nautilus-client --forward
- nautilus-client --refresh
- nautilus-client --bookmark 2
- ... etc.
The only problem I see here is that Nautilus can have multiple instances running at the same time, so the nautilus-client will need to figure out which is the active Nautilus window (which has focus). I am not sure whether there is a cross-platform way of knowing which window has focus. Is there?
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musically_ut
2 comments:
Seems a slow way to get there. Not really a suggestion. An opinion, maybe.
@Arya: Still perhaps better than going to the top-left corner of the screen and clicking the back icon. Or going back to the keyboard and pressing 'Alt+Back_arrow'
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