gedit bad behaviors

GNOME's gedit text editor is great, but I'm bugged by a couple of things:

If I pick a "recent" file from the File menu and the file is currently unavailable because it's on a file system that's not mounted, gedit takes the liberty of removing it from the recent files. Why not leave it there? Chances [...]

NautilusSvn and New Emblems

After writing last week about how I missed the Windows-only Tortoise(CVS|SVN) in GNU/Linux and sharing my simple scripts for running Subversion commands from Nautilus, I found Nautilus Svn by Jason Field, an Extension written in Python. (And available under the GPL v2.) It's very nice, and adds (among other things) a major feature that [...]

Subversion (SVN) GNOME Nautilus Script Helpers

Update, 3 November 2007:
Found a better solution: Jason Field's NautilusSvn. More SVN features, much better integration with Nautilus, and uses emblems to show file and directory status. There is a .deb file that installed easily on my Ubuntu 7.04/Feisty Fawn machine. And it's free as in GPL v2. Thanks, Jason!
Use NautilusSvn instead of my [...]

HOWTO: Rotate JPG images in GNOME's Nautilus File Manager

Originally published 6 October 2007 in Free Software Magazine. It was pointed out in the comments there that Nautilus Extensions is another way of customizing Nautilus, and that the extension nautilus-actions should be used instead for what I'm trying to do here. I had seen Extensions mentioned as a more powerful alternative at gnome.org, [...]

How do you disable the CTRL+T 'move to trash' shortcut in GNOME/Nautilus?

10 July 2007, Answered! Thanks to und0 for explaining in the comments. See below...
I just discovered an inconvenient default behavior of the Nautilus file browser. (At least, it appears to be a default in Ubuntu 7.04/Feisty Fawn.) I thought I was in my Firefox window and pressed <CTRL> T to open a [...]

Brasero does the CD burning job in GNOME

Update, 7 July 2007 Maybe Brasero is more for the basic jobs. K3b will do more for you...
My system76 desktop machine came with a CD-RW/DVD-RW drive that I've finally got around to trying out. I wasn't too concerned about how it would work with GNU/Linux, since I suspected CD and DVD burning [...]