special folder bars should be possible to close

[quindo]

Binary package hint: nautilus

When opening media (mounted share, usb drive, usb-camera) with audio-file and or photo's on them a dropdown appears in the nautilus screen.
Extreemly annoying, this dropdown does not disappear and can't be closed.
Especially BAD on netbooks (1024x600).
Not even a setting in gconf.
Makes nautilus almost unusable on small screens!

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: nautilus 1:2.26.2-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

 * Is this reproducible?
 * If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

 This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.

[Pieter (quindo)]

Recieved request for information by email and thought I had to reply by email.
Now adding that reply to the bug report.

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 16:08, Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> wrote:

    Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

     * Is this reproducible?

Yes.

     * If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

Start PC with Ubuntu (9.04 in my case).
Insert usb-stick with music and/or images on it.
Open nautilus window.
Inside Nautilus window, go to the usb-stick.
Look at window.

These dropdowns realy should disappear after a few seconds (i want my screen-real-astate back ;-) )

[Pieter (quindo)]

added requested information.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The request is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having an opinion about this behaviour could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The idea doesn't seem a good one, things closing automatically before you have time to use those and not letting you any obvious way to get the option back are rather confusing for users, those bars are also limited to devices and don't take that much screen space, you should perhaps rename the directories on the device if you really want to avoid those

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The idea doesn't seem a good one, things closing automatically before you have time to use those and not letting you any obvious way to get the option back are rather confusing for users, those bars are also limited to devices and don't take that much screen space, you should perhaps rename the directories on the device, if you really want to avoid those

[Pieter (quindo)]

My acer aspire one netbook has 2 sd-slots. 1 of those sd-slot always contains a sd-card and is mounted as /home/<username>/Documents. When browsing that directory the bars are always visible.

And they DO take too much screen space, especially when more than one program is listed (music And images = 1 line for f-spot and 1 line for rhythmbox).

There is no obvious way to remove the bar, how about the following:
* An option in gconf.
* A checkbox in the bar (don't show this)
* An item in the help that tells me what directory names not to use to avoid those bars.

Could you please tell me WHAT triggers those bars exactly?
Is it a directory called dcim?
is it files named p10*jpg, *.jpg, *.png, *.gif, img0*.jpg ?
Is it files named *.mp3 *.flac *.ogg ?

[Pieter (quindo)]

Also submited upstream in gnome bugzilla.
Bug 587516 – special folder bars should be possible to close

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for sending the bug to GNOME, the bars are displayed according to the device content, ie music directories are usually on music players and dcim or pictures directories are on camera, the logic is in shared-mime-info if you want details

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

upstream wontfixed that with this reason

"We only show one bar at a time now that should help a lot. Also, we've reduced
the app chrome in order to better fit on small displays. I think that having
the option to remove them will complicate things too much. We'd need to have a
way to undo the action, have a way to bring them back, try to determine if they
should always be hidden or just for that folder or just for that window or just
for that session.

I think we should just try to make them as unobtrusive as we can by default.
Going to close this."