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Modding the nautilus desktop - Text Beside Icons

First, open terminal and write:

apt-get source nautilus
sudo apt-get build-dep nautilus

the build-dep command will install all the build dependencies for nautilus.

1) Create a new text file and call it: file-manager.patch
copy all this contents into the doc:


Index: fm-desktop-icon-view.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gnome/nautilus/src/file-manager/fm-desktop-icon-view.c,v
retrieving revision 1.220
diff -u -r1.220 fm-desktop-icon-view.c
--- fm-desktop-icon-view.c	22 Feb 2005 10:41:46 -0000	1.220
+++ fm-desktop-icon-view.c	5 Mar 2005 06:45:22 -0000
@@ -760,7 +760,7 @@
 static gboolean
 real_supports_labels_beside_icons (FMIconView *view)
 {
-	return FALSE;
+	return TRUE;
 }

 static gboolean



Save the patch.

2) Copy the patch into the folder ~/nautilus-(version)/src/file-manager
open terminal go to ~/nautilus-(version)/src/file-manager that where you put the patch and when you in there, write:

patch -p0 < file-manger.patch

if the command was successful you should see something like this:

patching file fm-desktop-icon-view.c
Hunk #1 succeeded at 761 (offset 1 line).

3) not start to compile nautilus
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install
killall nautilus
Alt+F2
nautilus

that's it, now the option text beside icons should work on the desktop too, enjoy :)