On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Owen Taylor <otaylor@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 2010-09-25 at 09:31 -0700, Tom London wrote: >> 1. Nautilus no longer displays the desktop; believe I got some >> indication that this was part of the move to a newer desktop .... > > Since you aren't actually running the newer desktop (GNOME Shell is > temporarily not working in Rawhide, we'll get it fixed this week, and > the file management isn't fully there yet in any case), you can showing > the desktop back on with: > > gconftool -s -t bool /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop true > > Of course, that once you've set that key you'll no longer get the > default experience. > > (See: > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2010-September/msg00033.html > > for some discussion of the desktop situation) > >> 2. Nautilus no longer 'auto mounts' removable drives (e.g., thumb >> drives, hard drives, etc.). However, the device does appear in >> 'Places', and it mounts if you select it there. > > This is a fairly long-standing bug related to turning off "show_desktop" > - the automounting is part of the Nautilus process, and when not showing > the desktop, Nautilus just exits when there are no windows. > > See: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=585545 > > - Owen > Thanks for the update.... Think I'll wait for the newer gnome-shell. I sort of got hooked on the compiz eye-candy. Any idea if that (e.g., wobbly windows, rotating cube, ...) will be part of the "new gnome-shell experience"? tom -- Tom London -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
