[PLUG] Making 'view as list' the default

tonyr tonyr at hevanet.com
Tue Nov 14 23:52:53 UTC 2006


In any folder window, select Edit->Preferences.   Under the Views tab, Default 
View, in the 'View _n_ew folders using:'  drop down list, select List View.  After
I did this, all folder I opened are using the list view (except It looks more like
a tree view to me).  I'm assuming Ubuntu here, not Kubuntu.  I haven't found
a way to do this yet outside of a folder window.

- tony


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Jack Hoke wrote:
> John Jason Jordan wrote:
>> On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 18:03:47 -0800
>> Jack Hoke <jwhoke at bctonline.com> dijo:
>>
>
> OK, after reading your response and that of Rich S. , I can see that I 
> did a piss-poor job of explaining what I was looking for. I think the 
> path started in the Mozilla browser something like System > windows > 
> preferences although that is obviously not the case now. The final 
> menu had a *checkbox* labeled something like 'make list view the 
> default for all files ' . Checking this made *all* menus in the file 
> system default to list view. No more changing the view in each menu as 
> I worked through them.
>
> Does this ring a bell with anyone? I found this feature referred to in 
> someone's column or blog on the net, not in any of the Ubuntu help 
> stuff. I've lost the reference and after going the System > 
> Preferences and System > Admin menus numerous times I'm beginning to 
> doubt if this feature exists anymore. Maybe dropped after 5.10.
>
> If anyone has a clue about this I'd appreciate a response. Sorry for 
> the confusion.
>
>
>>> There used to be a path through the menu system where you could 
>>> click to make list the default view for all folders. I can't find it 
>>> now in Ubuntu 6.06 or 6.10. Has it been removed or am I just getting 
>>> lost in the maze? If removed, is there an alternate way to 
>>> accomplish this?
>>
>> Assuming you're referring to Nautilus, open any folder in the Places
>> menu, then View, and on the bottom of the list is View as List.
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