nautilus has tabs on bottom
Bug #509079 reported by
Fernando Miguel
This bug affects 27 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Nautilus |
Fix Released
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Medium
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nautilus (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: nautilus
recently Nautilus 2.29.1 in lucid started showing tabs on bottom.
This is a bad UI, and no other app does this.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jan 18 10:44:54 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha amd64 (20091130)
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: nautilus 1:2.29.1-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: nautilus
Tags: lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-10-generic x86_64
Related branches
Changed in nautilus: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
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This is intentional from the Nautilus crew: arstechnica. com/open- source/ reviews/ 2010/01/ ubuntu- 1004-alpha- 2-brings- pitivi- panel-changes. ars
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I'll chime in because I agree it's a bit gratuitously different and likely to confuse users who have managed to get familiar with browser tabs.
It would seem most obvious to put the tabs above the path widget, so that the path widget is a component of each tab (the "Chrome" approach, you could call it). That would make the path 'bounce' visually when going from a view with no tabs to tabs, but I doubt it would be that bothersome.
[And if this attracts attention, I think an even more pressing papercut is that, tabs or panes or spatial, it's still quite hard to distinguish between "/extremely/ long/path/ to/something" and "/media/ mountpoint/ extremely/ long/path/ to/something" in the common case of working with copies. Assigning a subtly different background color to removable devices by default would be one quick fix.]