Ubuntu
nautilus package

Nautilus applies "show hidden files" action to all tabs instead of only the selected one

Bug #853135 reported by Pablo Quirós
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nautilus (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Steps:
-Open 2 tabs in a Nautilus window.
-Press Ctrl+H in one of them to show hidden files.
-Hidden files are shown not only in the selected tab, but in the other tab as well.

This is not the expected behavior, and is inconsistent to the behavior of past versions of Nautilus.

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Sérgio Faria (sergio91pt) wrote :

As far as I remember it always was like that in Nautilus, I opened a Debian virtualbox image with Nautilus 2.30.1 (I think) and its the same.

affects: ubuntu → nautilus (Ubuntu)
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Sérgio Faria (sergio91pt) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 577623, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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