Bug 111255

Summary: Cannot turn off Nautilus desktop
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Sam Putrensky <sputre>
Component: nautilusAssignee: Alexander Larsson <alexl>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Sam Putrensky 2003-12-01 14:38:58 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4)
Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1

Description of problem:
The help screens for the Nautilus file manager indicate that Nautilus
control of the Desktop can be turned off by using Edit -> Preferences
-> Desktop & Trash.  When I open the Preferences dialog, it sontains
only four tabs:  Views, Behavior, Icon Captions, Preview.  It does not
contian the indicated tab, and I cannot see how to disable the Desktop
backdrop.

If this feature has been removed from this version of Nautilus, or if
there is some other way to control the desktop, the Help screens
should be updated to match the application's behavior.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
nautilus-2.2.1-5

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on 'Home' Folder on Desktop
2. In Nautilus main window, choose 'Preferences' from Edit menu
3. Prefs window does not contain a Desktop & Trash tab, as the Help
screen indicates it should.
    

Expected Results:  Tab should be present

Additional info:

Comment 1 Alexander Larsson 2004-02-09 10:31:49 UTC
the help needs to be updated. disabling the desktop now needs to be
done using gconf-editor.

Comment 2 Alexander Larsson 2004-10-04 14:33:08 UTC
This seems to have been fixed in the docs.