Re: [Nautilus-list] A whole list of feauture requests and bugs

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>]

Jonas De Vuyst <jonas devuyst advalvas be> writes:

> Hello,
> 
> 
> I have composed a list of new feautures I'd like to see in Nautilus.
> 

Jonas,

I think we already have plans to do your

> 
> - Encrypted folders. There is a loopback encrypted filesystem in The
> International Kernel Patch <http://kerneli.org>. It would be great if Nautilus
> would pop-up a dialog asking for a password when such a partition is clicked.
> It might even convince me to store my passwords on the Eazel server as a
> backup.

We were planning to add a feature for encrypting individual files at
some point. That would be a lot simpler and more portable than
encrypted folders, though I can see how it is les spowerful in some
ways.

> - Converting file types. I believe that it is possible in Windows using
> ZipMagic to rename a folder to folder.zip and have it convert to a ZIP file.
> It is also possible to access these ZIP files like normal folders using that
> same program, but this is something GnomeVFS already offers. Such a feature
> would be great IMHO, though you probably don't want to limit the functionality
> based on the extension.

This might be a good feature but I don't tink we want it to be based
on renaming.
 
> - The emblems are not accessible enough, right now I have to either go to the
> "Edit" menu, click "Backgrounds and emblems..." and possible click "Emblems".
> An alternative is to right click an icon, choose "Show Properties" and click
> on the second tab. A better way IMHO would be to store the emblems in a side
> panel.

A sidebar panel of emblems is eminently doable; I think you probably don't want

> 
> - Filters, in the location bar I would like to type /home/jdv/*.txt to see
> only text files. Further it would be nice if the "Preferences/Folder
> Views/Display" options were available at all time. I used to switch these
> using the intermediate and advanced mode but its functionality seems to have
> changed.

A similar feature we are planning is adding wildcard support to the
typeahead feature, so typing *.txt over the icon view would select all
files ending in .txt.

> 
> Some bugs I've encountered (please note that I'm running Nautilus 0.8 as it
> comes with Debian and that I have X screen fonts of 100dpi which is probably
> incorrect):
> 

Can you please file bug reports on all of these right away at
bugzilla.eazel.com, preferrably using the bugzilla helper?

> 
> - When I first run Nautilus and the First Time Setup druid comes up, I can
> only see the Beginner and Intermediate user level as the dialog is to small.
> See attachment.
> 
> - When I open the preferences dialog box the first time, the dialog is to
> small to show all options. See attachment.
> 
> - My trash doesn't work. The files get moved to it but when I click the trash
> no items are shown. Also, the File/Empty Trash menu is always disabled.
> 
> - If I open/close the home folder from a desktop shortcut then the side panel
> is shown larger each time.
> 
> - The tighter layout option is not saved.
> 
> - If I choose reversed order and I close/reopen the home folder then the
> option is saved but disabled. This is because the view is opened in a manual
> layout.
> 
> - The tree panel still doesn't work (it didn't in 0.5 and it still doesn't
> now).
>

Can you be more specific about this problem? In what way does it not
work for you?
 
> 
> And finally some notes about Nautilus' slowth (I have an Athlon 700 with 256MB
> RAM):
> 
> 
> - The time between clicking on the home folder icon and having the Nautilus
> window show is 1-2 seconds. The I have to wait another 1-2 seconds for the
> items to show. Also the Nautilus window flickers a lot until the text is shown
> in the files and the items are counted in the directories.
> 
> - Except for the flickering browing through directories is fast enough.
> 

We're working on this.

> - Repainting the desktop (and other Nautilus windows) is still to slow and
> shows shadow images.
> 

As far as I know the desktop should never show ghost images. Nautilus
windows will do that sometimes, we are working on that as best we can.

> Anyway, other than the above bugs Nautilus is sweet. Keep up the good work!

On behalf of the Nautilus team, thanks for the praise, and thanks even
more for the bug reports and feature suggestions.

 - Maciej