Places: unmounted drivers should not have priority over bookmarks

Bug #513175 reported by Ernst
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
GTK+
Expired
Wishlist
Nautilus
Fix Released
Wishlist
One Hundred Papercuts
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned
gtk+2.0 (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
Unassigned
nautilus (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: nautilus

I'm using Ubuntu Lucid Alpha2 (64-bit). However, I believe this behaviour is present for a long time.

If I'm opening a file (see attachment), I have on the left side places. Those places look like:
- Search
- recently opened
- home
- Desktop
- file system
- some mounted file systems
- some unmounted file systems
- bookmark 1 (Documents)
- bookmark 2 (Music)
- bookmark 3 (Pictures)
- bookmark 4 (Video)

As you can see in my screenshot, I have a lot of unmounted file systems meaning I need to scroll for my bookmarks. For me (and I think for others too), the bookmarks are the most important places (that's why they are bookmarked). Maybe home and desktop are equally important, but for sure they are more useful for a user than unmounted file systems - otherwise they would have been mounted.

Because I have a lot of unmounted file systems, I need to scroll for my bookmarks. I would really like to have my bookmarks one click away, so I would suggest to place them before the unmounted drives.

I think this is really an improvement. Maybe this wish should be one of the 100 paper cuts?

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Ernst (ernst-blaauw) wrote :
summary: - Places: unmounted rivers should not have priority over bookmarks
+ Places: unmounted drivers should not have priority over bookmarks
Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
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Vish (vish) wrote :

This is a known issue in nautilus upstream.

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
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Vish (vish) wrote :

The user mentions the "open file" dialogue in gtk.

This bug is an upstream one and it would be quite helpful if somebody experiencing it could send the bug the to the people writing the software. You can learn more about how to do this for various upstreams at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream.
Once submitted upstream , do report back here with the upstream bug number.
Thanks in advance!

Changed in gtk+2.0 (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
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Vish (vish) wrote :

Thank you for bringing this bug to our attention. However, a paper cut should be a small usability issue, in the default Ubuntu install, that affects many people and is quick and easy to fix. So this bug can't be addressed as part of this project.

- Though this is something that needs to be fixed , the fix has to be done in 2 projects and is a much bigger task to be considered a papercut.
For further information about papercuts criteria, please read https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PaperCut.

Don't worry though, this bug has been marked as "Invalid" only in the papercuts project.

Changed in hundredpapercuts:
status: New → Invalid
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Vish (vish) wrote :

Seems its an old known issue , as well > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=306363

Changed in gtk+2.0 (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Triaged
Vish (vish)
affects: gtk2 → gtk
Changed in nautilus:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
Changed in nautilus:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

the bug has been fixed upstream now

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Changed in nautilus:
importance: Unknown → Wishlist
Changed in gtk:
importance: Unknown → Wishlist
status: Unknown → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

nautilus 3.0 is now in Oneiric

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in gtk:
status: Confirmed → Expired
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