Re: root login
On Sun, 2003-04-27 at 07:26, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Colin Walters">
>
> > > It is far easier to 'fuck things up' in a GUI than it is on the command
> > > line. Deleting /dev or /usr in a file manager, for instance, or even
> > > just moving them.
> >
> > This of course raises the question of why people are able to do those
> > kinds of things by default. Windows XP makes you go to difficulty to even
> > see these kinds of "system" files, much less delete them. I think that's
> > a rather good idea.
>
> I agree, especially given that (more often than not), normal users can't do
> anything useful to these files anyway. They're basically just noise (the
> treeview suffers greatly from this).
>
> There has been talk about rooting the treeview on ~, and having additional
> roots such as System, Network, etc. This would definitely help (don't have
> System shown by default, perhaps).
>
> > (When was the last time anyone looked at /dev/ in Nautilus?)
>
> Heh. Nautilus handles that brilliantly -> too many files. ;-)
Nautilus 2.2.3.1 manages fine. Even let me select 'em all, too :-)
P.
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