On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 19:17:55 +0530 Rahul Sundaram <rahulsundaram@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi > > > > # 164493 (marked as a duplicate of 137515) > > the first good thing that seems to have come out of this is these kind > of bug reports. > > I am pretty sure that graying out non readable or read only locations > is better than letting users fiddling with system bookmarks like > desktop, home etc. thats typically called a "unbreak me" preference > http://ometer.com/free-software-ui.html I think there are two issues. 1) The system should not present read-only targets as available for writing. 2) The targets should be customizable by the user. If I know that I will never write to the cdrom or to some other system bookmarks, I should be able to remove them somehow. The only bookmark there is a strong argument for always keeping is '/'. By all means provide reasonable defaults (and apart from the insistance of including previously unmounted vfat partitions, I believe they are reasonable), but give the user the freedom to delete them. For example, I *never* use Desktop. I don't run nautilus so I never will. Maybe I am the only person who works like this (though I suspect not), but even so I should still have the choice to delete it if I wish. Other users will have different requirements, and there is no way the developers will provide defaults that satisfy everyone. I would settle for the customization to be available from gconf-editor (though I think this program is a hack and should never have been necessary), but the file manager already has add and remove buttons and I can see no reason why these should not extend to the predefined bookmarks as well. Beginner friendly should not have to mean expert hostile. Regards, Chris
