Usability problem in "Connect to Sever" links in Places

[mnederlanden]

Binary package hint: nautilus

When you use "Connect to Server" to add a ftp site to your "Places" bar; you can't rename the connection. For those of us who maintain multiple sites with the same login credentials, this means that we either can't see which site we are connecting to or we have to have the "Places" sidebar take up the majority of the file browser window. Yes, I know that I could add a bookmark and rename that, but this is an awkward solution. It's pretty redundant to have to add a bookmark to your sidebar to a FTP location that's already in your sidebar because the FTP's identifying information is hidden by the size of the sidebar. Not a very elegant solution... Even if you can see the whole information, if you are using grid servers, you have to connect with the IP address, and if you have several of these it gets confusing very quickly. We should just be able to name FTP locations.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: nautilus 1:2.32.0-0ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-24.42-generic 2.6.35.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-24-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jan 4 00:03:41 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100816.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

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://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the report. There's an 'master' bug on the upstream bug tracker for this issue, please give your input at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139105. Thanks.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The dialog got redesigned in GNOME 3.6 and the issue should be fixed with the raring nautilus version