more bugs....

[Dave Bordoley <bordoley msu edu>]

On the heels of the gnome2 release, I've gone through bugzilla and found
some bugs i would like to close as won't fix, but need approval to do so
first. here's the list. please let me know what ya think.

dave

nautilus 
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bug 42853 -- Can't spawn new window via javascript, no error message 

This bug only affects nautilus if we try to make it into a web browser.
Galeon view sidesteps this issue by using it's own shell for these. I
think this is adequate enough for the nautilus, since adding the code to
nautilus to actually do this independent of galeon would have limited
benefit. 


bug 40048 -- display directory sizes instead of item counts 

Currently we display directory counts. Personally i like these and find
them more useful than size counts. 


bug 41591 -- the '/' level consumes a horizontal hierarchy level for
little gain 

I think we have to leave the / level in if only for the reason that drag
and drop into the root directory will not be possible if it's not there
in the tree view


bug 42187 -- Can't configure desktop URI 

do we want the desktop uri to be configurable. Personally i think we
should just have good defaults. Not to rehash the issue but basically if
we switch to using ~/desktop as the default and $home as an alternative
i think we have provided enough options 


bug 44633 -- Cannot rename default icons on desktop 

A feature request to be able to rename mounted file system icons and
trash (since home and start-here can be renamed). I think renaming trash
is pretty crack, and nautilus generates the mounted drive names to be
unique, so i think we should just stick with the current behavior.


bug 45125 -- icon text size not associated with icon scaling 

I think font size should only be based on the zoom not on the scaling of
icons using icon stretching.


bug 44772 -- double-clicking file name should start renaming (not open
file) 

Personally i think clicking should never start rename, we have a rename
option in the context menu, this is much cleaner and prevents users from
accidentally starting rename. I would actually like to see click for
rename removed from the list view as well since I'm always accidentally
starting renaming when i just want to open a folder


bug 46306 -- No way to change a link's target

Is changing the target of a symlink a reasonable unix action?

 
bug 46993 -- Nautilus doesn't show special directories . and .. even
when "show hidden files" enabled 

I don't think showing these directories in graphical file manager really
makes sense. they are more useful in the terminal where they are used to
traverse the filesystem.


bug 47806 -- Changes to column widths are not saved 

List view. I don't think we should be saving column width because the
contents of a directory may change. In this case it makes more sense for
nautilus to automatically resize columns to optimal lengths (as it seems
to do already).


bug 48034 -- Implement Galeon-style tabs 

This is one of those things that just isn't that helpful in a file
manager/desktop shell app. If we were trying to make nautilus into a
good web browser it be one thing, but the general consensus seems to be
thats what galeon is for.


bug 62201 -- Do not show dot files in Sidebar: Tree, even if "show dot
files" enabled 

Why should we ignore the user chosen preference. I don't see the benefit
of special casing this.


bug 70543 -- please add commands to bzip or tar and bzip to the
right-click menu 

Isn't this what scripts support is for. I do think it would be nice to
include some default scripts with nautilus though.


bug 47829 -- link emblem doesn't look good when zoomed in 400 percent

link emblem is a png, maybe in the future we should use svg for all
emblems, but currently folders look pretty bad at 400 percent as well.

 
bug 47103 -- need scaled version of Trash icon in default theme so it
looks good 

Complains about the fact that default trash icon doesn't scale.
Considering that the existing nautilus themes are pretty much
unsupported, I think we should just close this. In the long term we'll
probably just want to replace the existing nautilus themes with ones
that are more gnomish anyway i would guess.


bug 84209 -- Display of text preview inside of nautilus icon cannont be
turned off on a per-file basis 

User is concerned that they store their passwords in a text file and
cannot turn off icon previewing per icon. They are worried that a co
worker will see the icon preview and hence their password. My opinion is
that text preview should be all on or all off. plus you shouldn't be
storing passwords in unencrypted text files anyway.


bug 47902 -- Support Windows .ico file format 

I don't think we should be bending backwards to support non free specs.


bug 68391 -- Themes are in strange directory 

Complains about the fact nautilus themes are in usr/share/pixmaps. I
think this is a non issue since user installed themes are stored in
~/.nautilus/themes


bug 65058 -- add a way to do operations as another user (as "sudo" does
on the command line) 

Seth expresses a concern about security in this bug. Personally I'm
against this, based on the assumption that gnome is most likely to be
used in more large scale installations, where most users don't have root
access anyway. For home users is pretty easy to just use sudo from the
terminal.



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A list of all the open news bugs. Whats the status of news in nautilus.
Will it come back (I hope not). Can we just close these as this feature
is no longer supported.

News----------------- 
bug 48173 
bug 48187 
bug 48205 
bug 48452 
bug 48492 
bug 64362 
bug 65370 
bug 72226 
bug 73763 
bug 73825 
bug 77058 
bug 77939 
bug 80958 
bug 81678 


Similar issue with the hardware view. I brought this up a couple months
ago, and someone got upset. Personally i think we should dump it. The
hardware view is a)not very good and b) linux dependent. I think for the
vast majority of users, distro specific tools like redhat's hardware
browser serve the user much better. 

Hardware------------ 
bug 46104 
bug 45996 
bug 42825 
bug 48351