Re: Feedback: Six Nautilus annoyances

["Eugenia Loli-Queru" <eloli hotmail com>]

Argh, I knew I was forgetting something... So, there are three more, I swear 
I wanted to write about these too but I forgot earlier... :o

7. When I am on list or icon view, I would like to press a letter key, e.g. 
"k" and have Nautilus to navigate me to the first word that starts with a 
"k". Nautilus already does this. But when I keep pressing "k" I would like 
Nautilus to get me to the next filename that starts with a k, which is 
something Nautilus doesn't do atm. I guess I could do a "k" and then a TAB, 
but unfortunately because of the following annoyance #8, this is not good 
enough, because first you need to change a key to do the exact same action 
and that's bad from usability/accessibility POV (from k to TAB) and second, 
Nautilus arranges files according to casing, and so the file "Kool.txt" 
might be miles away from "kate.pdf", so TAB is just not good enough. I was 
keep having this issue with my /usr/include folder trying to find a file I 
needed, and the whole usage I described above was so darn annoying...

8. Please allow to arrange items case-insensitive. I see no reason why 
Kool.txt should be before alpha.doc. Yes, unix systems are case sensitive, 
but this only means that kool.txt is different from Kool.txt not that 
Kool.txt should show before all "k" file names or even worse, before all a* 
and b* words etc. It doesn't make any sense to me. Why the privilige? :P

9. When I right click on a file and say "Rename", I usually just need to 
change a small portion of the file name, not the whole name. So, usually, I 
just need to rename mypicture26743.jpg to mypicture4.jpg or something, just 
small edits. So, what I instictively do, is press the right arrow key to the 
selected filename for renaming, trying to unselect the file and place my 
cursor just at the end of the previously partly selected filename (between 3 
and the dot . in my example above). But Nautilus instead of doing that, it 
places my cursor just before the letter "m" in  the beginning of the word.
If I instead press the left arrow key, it places my cursor at the very right 
side of the selected filename! In other words, the cursor placement is not 
correct. I want to press the right arrow key to go to the right, and the 
left arrow  to the left, but nautilus does the opposite atm. This is pretty 
annoying because it surprises the user...

thx,
Eugenia

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