Change view when nautilus is less than full screen

[Chris Jeffries]

Binary package hint: nautilus

Ubuntu 10.04
Nautilus 2.30.1

When Nautilus window width is reduced, the 'List/Icon/Compact View' drop down option list is replaced by a button with a down arrow which, when clicked, offers the 'Search for files' and 'View As' options.

However, if you select the 'View A's option, nothing further happens. When 'View As' is selected, the 'List/Icon/Compact View' drop down should be displayed.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: nautilus 1:2.30.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.36-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 7653b627515bdbdcf473e633c9aa1dad
CheckboxSystem: 2b6b6ee4c6a1f5f02fef2009466026d8
Date: Mon Jun 14 09:22:03 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus

[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)

[Bruno Girin (brunogirin)]

Forwarded upstream.

[Chris Jeffries (chris-candm)]

On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 08:38 +0000, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> 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)
>
> ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Low
>
> ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Confirmed
>

Not sure who 'somebody' is. I reported this bug using

    ubuntu-bug nautilus

So if it got reported in the wrong place, then that's a bug in
ubuntu-bug!

Having gone to the location suggested, I am none the wiser what to do.

I do not have a Bugzilla account - as far as I recall, and can really
not see why I should create one, when the details of the bug have been
reported. Why does the system not push bugs 'upstream' if that is
needed.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for sending to GNOME

[Bruno Girin (brunogirin)]

@Chris,

You reported the bug in the right place, as all bugs should first be reported in Launchpad. On a piece of software like Nautilus, one of the first things that happens is to identify whether the bug is due to Ubuntu packaging or whether it's in the original code from upstream (in this case GNOME). So in effect, Sebastien was saying: "I've had a look, the bug is an upstream one". When this is the case, it then needs to be forwarded upstream. The 'someone' in Sebastien's message is generally a Ubuntu BugSquad member but can be anybody who has a Bugzilla account and feels that he understand the bug enough to forward it. In this case, I did it so there is no need for you to do anything.

As for automating the upstream reporting, this is not done today because it requires a few manual steps in addition to just filing a new bug (in particular, you need to check whether the bug already exists upstream or not). Having said this, Launchpad could probably be extended to help this process but I don't think it can be fully automated.

Anyway, thanks for reporting this bug and please report any other that you find.

[Chris Jeffries (chris-candm)]

Thank you for the explanation.

It is appreciated

Chris

On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 11:45 +0000, Bruno Girin wrote:
> @Chris,
>
> You reported the bug in the right place, as all bugs should first be
> reported in Launchpad. On a piece of software like Nautilus, one of the
> first things that happens is to identify whether the bug is due to
> Ubuntu packaging or whether it's in the original code from upstream (in
> this case GNOME). So in effect, Sebastien was saying: "I've had a look,
> the bug is an upstream one". When this is the case, it then needs to be
> forwarded upstream. The 'someone' in Sebastien's message is generally a
> Ubuntu BugSquad member but can be anybody who has a Bugzilla account and
> feels that he understand the bug enough to forward it. In this case, I
> did it so there is no need for you to do anything.
>
> As for automating the upstream reporting, this is not done today because
> it requires a few manual steps in addition to just filing a new bug (in
> particular, you need to check whether the bug already exists upstream or
> not). Having said this, Launchpad could probably be extended to help
> this process but I don't think it can be fully automated.
>
> Anyway, thanks for reporting this bug and please report any other that
> you find.
>

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The UI changed since and that's not a problem anymore