Nautilus and Places menu

[John Levin]

On 30 Mar 2005, at 04:38, Niran Babalola wrote:

> Oops, I think I misunderstood your question. How are you running
> Nautilus if not from the Places menu? When I run it from the run
> application box, I get the same thing as I do from the Places menu.
>
> - Niran
>
>

I get the full nautilus display by clicking on Applications > System 
Tools > File Browser.
The 'Places Browser" I get from the Places menu and (I've just tried 
it) from 'Run Application'

John


> On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 19:34:22 -0800, Niran Babalola 
> <iamniran at gmail.com> wrote:
>> It's being worked on for the next Gnome release.
>> http://live.gnome.org/DesktopPlaces
>>
>> - Niran
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 02:35:41 +0100, John Levin <john at technolalia.org> 
>> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've done a cursory search, but can't find anything about this, which
>>> suprises me greatly.
>>>
>>> When one opens a file from the Places menu, the window is very
>>> different from the default Nautilus view. For example the menubar is
>>> quite different:
>>> Nautilus: File Edit View Go Bookmarks Help
>>> Places Browser: File Edit View places Help
>>>
>>> and the File and View menus are different, with different options.
>>>
>>> Yet this is the same application.
>>>
>>> Is this deliberate? (If so, why?) Is it possible to configure the
>>> Places Browser to use the default Nautilus window?
>>>
>>> Running Hoary preview 7, fully up to date.
>>>
>>> TIA
>>>
>>> john
>>>