View of files scrolls up when thumbnails are being created

[Arkadiusz Piekarz]

Binary package hint: nautilus

In Nautilus with icon view, when you open a folder with lots of files, i.e. photos, and scroll down while thumbnails for photos are being created, the view will constantly scroll up, because thumbnails take more space than ordinary system icons (especially thumbnails for vertical pictures) and push icons below downwards.

This behavior makes it impossible to navigate through the folder before all thumbnails have been created, which can be extremely annoying with hundreds of pictures in one place. Things like selecting a couple of files or finding the right one to click on it become very hard to do.

BTW I initially filed this bug at "100 papercuts" project, but it was too hard to fix for them.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/401685

Ubuntu version: Ubuntu 9.04
package version: nautilus 2.26.2-0ubuntu2
What I expected: files to be shown at the same place, at the same level of height
What happened: files moved up or down during thumbnails creation

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[Philip Muškovac (yofel)]

Bug sent upstream.

@Arek:
While looking in the gnome bugtracker I found a workaround for this issue in http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=506083

[Philip Muškovac (yofel)]

Renewing upstream bug link since the bug was marked as a duplicate. The new link is
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143817

[Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki)]

I think this would still fit also in the papercuts definition - assuming that on the first day the new Ubuntu user would browse his existing photo collection (for example dual-boot case or external hard drive with photos).

This is one of the comparatively rare bugs that I've seen multiple times when visiting other Ubuntu users, which makes me believe this is actually one of the top annoyances for people, albeit limited to that subset of people that have hundreds of photos in one folder and that use file manager to browse through the folders.