Comments on: Removing Mounted Drives from the Gnome Desktop

By: FettesPS

FettesPS — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:22:50 +0000

Heh, I know the feeling. I accidentally close my tabs all the time via hot keys. One of the first things I do when I have a fresh install is remove half the hot keys.

By: Black Jack Shellac

Black Jack Shellac — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:25:56 +0000

I’m just happy when the gnome developer gods condescend to us enough to add gconf editor options for these types of configuration options. I’ve been trying to get them to add an option to remove the idiotic close buttons on gnome-terminal tabs for several years now, but they just keep coming up with more and more elabourate “fixes” or excuses why it should or shouldn’t be done. Thank the open source gods though that I can apply a two line patch to the source every time there’s an update, but this is obviously more than the vast majority of users can accomplish.

By: WayOfTheIronPaw

WayOfTheIronPaw — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 04:05:56 +0000

#!/bin/bash
# VALUE takes up the rest of the line, i.e. can contain spaces.
while read TYPE KEY VALUE; do
if [ "$KEY" != "" -a "$TYPE" != "" ]; then
echo “$KEY = “$VALUE” ($TYPE)”
if ! gconftool-2 –type $TYPE –set $KEY “$VALUE”; then
exit 1
fi
fi
done << EOF

bool /apps/gnome-terminal/global/confirm_window_close false
string /apps/gnome-terminal/global/default_profile Default
string /apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/background_color #000000
bool /apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/default_show_menubar false
string /apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/font Liberation Mono 9
string /apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/foreground_color #FFFFFF
int /apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/scrollback_lines 10000
bool /apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/scroll_on_keystroke true
bool /apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/scroll_on_output false

bool /apps/nautilus/preferences/always_use_browser true
string /apps/nautilus/preferences/default_folder_viewer list_view
bool /apps/nautilus/sidebar_panels/tree/show_only_directories true

EOF

…and on and on the list goes…

By: snuxoll

snuxoll — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 03:13:57 +0000

I’ll agree that some options should be exposed in preference dialogs instead of being hidden away in gconf, but most of them don’t need to be exposed.

By: vegittoss15

vegittoss15 — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 01:02:56 +0000

I’ll agree 4.1 and 4.0 were utter utter garbage (still better than Gnome, but that’s not the point here). Try out 4.2, you’ll be pleasantly surprised.

By: pemboa

pemboa — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:39:59 +0000

KDE 4. what?

By: psilokan

psilokan — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:20:25 +0000

KDE 4 was what made me switch to Gnome.

By: mossblaser

mossblaser — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:42:01 +0000

Except their standards are very inconsistent. For instance you can change the wallpaper of your file browser — seriously how many people do that compared to things like this (disabling having drives being spammed to the desktop).

By: mossblaser

mossblaser — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:40:50 +0000

This is one of those things about gnome that really bugs me. It has a UI to add wallpapers to file browsers but doesn’t have one for something as basic as this. Their idea of simplifying things is really inconsistent.

Disclaimer: not to say gnome sucks, I like it quite a lot but it seems that its a problem that is easily fixed but they refuse to do it.

By: snuxoll

snuxoll — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:19:23 +0000

Most of those ‘useful’ preferences are ones users don’t care about 95% of the time, we have gconf-editor for the other 5%.