Gnome un-aware file handling (was: UNDELETION EXT3 workaround)

[Markus Hitter]

Am 19.02.2008 um 04:41 schrieb Jared Schlicht:

> The goal with desktop distros seems to be "The user should not have  
> to touch
> the command line".

This might be a valid goal but doesn't work very often. Many, many  
applications are not Gnome-aware and it's impossible for them to open  
a file on a network drive, for example.

You have to copy the thing to a local drive with the file manager and  
open the thing there. Alternatively, you can mount network shares in  
the file system, but this requires touching the command line yet again.

I'd be glad hearing about a file manager actually mounting drives  
instead of using voodoo, like Nautilus does.


Markus

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