The '"x" is an executable text file' dialogue is not user friendly
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Nautilus |
Confirmed
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Wishlist
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| nautilus (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Wishlist
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs | ||
Bug Description
I originally raised this as an idea on the brainstorm, but was told it should be reported as a bug by the brainstorm admin (the brainstorm is here: http://
When you click on an executable text file, such as a script to which you've just made a change which you want to test, a dialogue appears asking if you want to open it, run it, run it in a terminal, or cancel. I think this dialogue is severely flawed.
Why aren't the two run buttons next to each other? Why isn't cancel on the far left where it usually is? What if I want to edit the file instead of displaying it (I know the Display button /actually/ opens it for editing, but it doesn't say that)? Why can't I tell it to stop asking me every time I click on the file, if I always want to do the same thing? And why is the dialogue so cluttered?
My solution is as follows:
- Move Cancel to the far left, because that's where we've come to expect it to be
- Rename the Display button Display/Edit, because that's what it's for
- Get rid of the Run in Terminal option, but put a "Run in Terminal" tick box under the "Run" button, because the dialogue is cluttered
- Add a "Remember my Choice" tick box
It occurs to me that this is probably trivial to fix - could it be a paper-cut? I don't know if you could say it effects lots of users, but it does happen on any executable file. I know that the last thing my mum wants to see when she clicks an executable file is a scary technical sounding dialogue - if we could simplify it (by reducing the number of buttons) and give her a remember my choice option so that she doesn't get bothered with it every time, she'd be a lot happier.
| affects: | ubuntu → nautilus (Ubuntu) |
| Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
| Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| assignee: | nobody → Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs) |
| Changed in nautilus: | |
| status: | Unknown → New |
| Changed in nautilus: | |
| importance: | Unknown → Low |
| Changed in nautilus: | |
| importance: | Low → Wishlist |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
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:/