double use of F3 destroys tab structure irreversibly

[Bernhard]

Binary package hint: nautilus

I like the extra pane option F3 in lucid, but I see the following usability hazard: say I have a lot of tabs open and I hit F3 to open an extra pane. Then I realize that I don't need the extra pane and hit F3 again. The result is that all my tabs have vanished because nautilus keeps the newly created pane when I hit F3 twice.

There's two solutions for this imho:

1) the easy solution would be to keep the old pane active when I hit F3. This way double F3 would keep the old pane alive instead of the new one.
2) the more complex solution would be to make sure that all tabs stay alive when I close an extra pane. So if I close a pane with different tabs, then all of those tabs will be attached as tabs to the remaining pane. Or at least all those tabs except the one I'm closing.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Mar 7 17:16:26 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha amd64 (20100224.1)
Package: nautilus 1:2.29.91-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-16.23~drm33v5-generic
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-16-generic x86_64

[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)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for sending the bug to GNOME

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Should be fixed in Ubuntu 10.04. Thanks for reporting.