Side pane does not revert to default size when selecting View -> Reset View to Defaults

[Bruno Girin]

Binary package hint: nautilus

Selecting the menu item View -> Reset View to Defaults does not reset the side pane to its default width. One of the use cases for users to select the View -> Reset View to Defaults menu options is to get back to a known state when they have accidentally changed something and don't know how to revert the change, one of those examples being to accidentally set the width of the side pane to zero.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Make sure the side pane is visible
2. Set the width of the side pane to 0 or disable the side pane by pressing F9
3. Select View -> Reset View to Defaults

Expected behaviour
The side pane re-appears at it default width

Actual behaviour
The side pane is unchanged: if it's hidden it stays hidden, if it has 0 width, it stays at 0 width.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Feb 27 14:10:10 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: nautilus 1:2.28.1-0ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-19.56-generic
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-19-generic i686

[frlet888 (francinelettissier)]

Bruno,

Yes I confirm all of the above that is exactly the case
Developers can get the details of my installation from the initial
bug report I raised at https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/528044

Thanks.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

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. Thanks in advance!