should ask confirmation before opening a multiple items selection
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Nautilus |
Confirmed
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Medium
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One Hundred Papercuts |
Triaged
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Low
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Unassigned | ||
nautilus (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
When you select multiple files in Nautilus and accidentally open them (by wrong click, by Intro key...), Nautilus tries to open all of them at once in multiple instances of the default application. This can make your system totally unresponsive and force you to do a hard restart if they are many (try with 2.000, for example) or they are heavy (video, for example). Even if it doesn't come to that, it's annoying to have to close then one by one.
In Windows if you try to open many files at once there is a warning ('You are trying to open multiple files', I think), giving you the option to cancel or open them anyway. I think Nautilus should do the same. After all, how often do you need to open 20 files at once?
To have an option to close all open instances of an app at once would be very usefull too.
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
assignee: | nobody → Marcus Carlson (0-launchpad-mejlamej-nu) |
Changed in nautilus: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
tags: | added: nautilus |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
milestone: | none → maverick-round-1-file-management |
tags: | removed: nautilus |
Changed in nautilus: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in nautilus: | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
tags: | added: nebulous |
Changed in nautilus: | |
status: | Fix Released → Confirmed |
tags: |
added: natty removed: nebulous |
Changed in nautilus: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
milestone: | maverick-round-1-file-management → nt4-nautilus |
status: | Fix Committed → Triaged |
Changed in nautilus: | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
Changed in nautilus: | |
status: | Fix Released → Confirmed |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
status: | Fix Released → Triaged |
assignee: | Marcus Carlson (0-launchpad-mejlamej-nu) → nobody |
tags: |
added: bionic focal removed: natty |
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