Today's upgrade screwed up my places menu
MR ZenWiz
mrzenwiz at gmail.com
Wed Dec 1 19:27:59 UTC 2010
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 7:49 AM, Albert Wagner <albertwagner at cox.net> wrote:
>
> I finally found how to fix this.
> 1) drag an item from the Panel menu onto the desktop so that it can be
> examined.
> 2) It is set to open with Theme Installer
> 3) Change the 'open with' to file-browser
>
> On second thought I am not sure that this was caused by the security
> update or something I did inadvertently. I don't remember messing with
> anything in the Panel menu, but it wouldn't be the first time that I was
> simply stupid. While earning how NOT to use the touchpad on my laptop
> while typing, I am overcome by unintended consequences.
>
I have grown to hate touchpads for this very reason. It's just too
easy for my thumb to slip down and touch the pad, hijacking the cursor
to the wrong place for the wrong thing.
"Never attribute to malice that which can adequately be explained by
stupidity." (or touchpads... :-)
- Hanlon's Razor, annotated by me
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