Re: more bugs....

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On 15 Jun 2002, Ryan Muldoon wrote:

> > > > 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).
> > > > 
> > > State should be maintained wherever it can be, I think.  I want my
> > > windows popping up as I last left them.
> > 
> > Thats a different issue. windows should maintain there sizes (i think
> > frank fixed this), but as for column widths isn't making it
> > automagically work just better?
> > 
> No, I am not just talking about window sizes and locations on the
> desktop.  I mean *state*.  Ideally, the directory should be shown to me
> exactly as I last left it.  Possibly the most annoying thing about
> Nautilus right now is that if I scroll down halfway in a nautilus
> window, click on a folder, then go back, I am at the top of the
> directory again.  Although this is a different bug number, it
> illustrates my point.  State should be maintained to as great a level as
> possible.

Yeah. That is pretty irritating.
 
> > Regardless I don't think this belongs in the current nautilus ui. We
> > have a mechanism for providing such a feature, it is called scripting,
> > and in this specific case mime types are not an issue at all, since the
> > option to gzip or bzip would be available for any file. Now ungzipping
> > or unbziping will eventually be handled by nautilus very nicely, by
> > allowing the user to traverse a tar, gzip or bzip file in the file
> > manager, but this is a different issue.
> > 
> Well, as I pointed out, scripts are ok, but not a good permenant
> solution to basic functionality needs.  I really don't see the
> harm/expense as leaving the bug with a "wishlist" milestone as a
> placeholder for desired functionality.  Once Nautilus handles the zip
> and tar files via gnome-vfs, then you can close the bug.

Sometimes it seems DaveB cares more about closing bugs in bugzilla than 
using bugzilla as a tool to create useful software. 

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