On Friday 26,March,2010 03:21 AM, Jorge O. Castro wrote: > Mark blogged[1] that we should communicate things that we feel need to > be trimmed back so I thought I would bring up the topic of the > Nautilus context-menu (aka. right click on the desktop/file). Over the > years I feel like this menu has been growing unchecked and now I feel > overwhelmed when I use it. Right now when I click on a file I get: > > [...] > Copy to > (and then my home and Desktop) > Move to > (and then my home and Desktop again) I actually haven't seen these two options before. How/Where did you find them? > [...] > Stretch Icon (does anyone really use this?) > Restore Icon (grayed out unless you've resized the icon) I have used this once, but have never bothered to for the past few years. I don't think it will be missed. Either way, these two items only appear for items on the desktop. Perhaps one might like to have a larger "Computer" or "Home" icon. > Send to... > Compress > Revert to Previous Version (I suspect this one is there because I have > deja-dup installed) These are menu options added by plugins. Perhaps we can collapse them into an "Extra Actions" submenu once they pass a certain limit, similar to how our bookmarks collapse into a Bookmarks submenu in the Places menu. > [...] > Right clicking on a folder has similar options, with the addition of > "Sharing Options" and now "Synchronize to Ubuntu One". When using > other software I get even more options added in here (crypto options, > dropbox, etc.). Some of the UI in these options is pretty weird. For > example in "Send to..." I can send a file to a bluetooth device (OBEX) > so the UI makes sense there but I can also send to "Removable disks > and shares" and then select "Blank CD ROM", which is and odd way to > write something to a CD. Likewise the "Sharing Options" and Ubuntu One > options should likely be integrated together into something nicer. Regarding the "Sharing Options" menu item, I have been thinking that it would be a good idea to do away with it completely, since there is a "Share" tab in the properties dialog which does exactly the same thing. In fact, it is actually the same widget pulled from the same .ui file, then added into either a standalone window or a property page. -- Kind regards, Chow Loong Jin (GPG: 0x8F02A411) Ubuntu Developer
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