[Leaplist] Anyone know how to tame Nautilus?????

[Jim Hartley]

I am running Fedora 7 with Gnome desktop, and I get the impression that
everyone thinks Nautilus is a real great file manager application. It's
... well, it's sort of OK, but I have problems with it. I seem to be
running Nautilus 2.18.3, and I would REALLY like to make some fixes
and/or changes.

Problem 1 - HELP doesn't work (I think maybe this contributes to some of
the other problems). I get

There was an error displaying help:
There was an error launching the default action command associated with
this location.

Problem 2 - If I launch Nautilus manually from Applications->System
Tools->File Browser, I get a 2-pane window - Icons/Listing of files on
the right, and a narrow tree-view on the left. But if something crashes
and I "lose" this, the next time I reboot I get a ONE-PANE window, the
tree view is missing! (I really use and need that tree view.) Have to
kill it and restart it manually from the menu.

Problem 3 - "Sort by Name" gives weird (at least to me) results. If the
name starts with a numeric, it treats ALL leading numerics as a NUMBER
and sorts on that, making files very hard to find. For example,
1111xxx.jpg sorts higher than 99xxx.jpg, while I would much rather see
everything that starts with "1" together and everything that starts with
"9" together. I want a strict ASCII ordered sort (with no attempt to
assign a "format" to the sequence of characters in the name), any ideas
how to tinker the sort settings?

If anyone knows enough about this turkey to help, I would be very grateful.

Jim Hartley
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