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Bug 45708 - Refresh should not change the "View as" mode
Refresh should not change the "View as" mode
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Views: All
2.24.x
Other All
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2001-01-16 23:53 UTC by pavel
Modified: 2012-08-24 20:16 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.23/2.24



Description pavel 2001-09-10 00:53:12 UTC
Open two windows in the same directory, both in list view.
Switch the second window to icon view.
Click refresh on the first window.
It switches to icon view -- I'd like it to stay in list view.



------- Additional Comments From darin@bentspoon.com 2001-01-17 11:06:44 ----

Good point. Not sure why the mode is changing.



------- Additional Comments From eli@eazel.com 2001-03-26 11:10:50 ----

QA Assigning to self.



------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2001-09-09 20:53 -------

The original reporter (pavel@eazel.com) of this bug does not have an account here.
Reassigning to the exporter, unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org.

Comment 1 John Fleck 2002-01-05 04:12:03 UTC
Changing to "old" target milestone for all bugs laying around with no milestone set.
Comment 2 Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail] 2002-03-17 23:39:08 UTC
Confirmed on 1.1.18
Comment 3 Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail] 2002-03-26 03:48:23 UTC
I'm pretty sure this is a problem with per directory view settings.
Comment 4 Aschwin van der Woude 2002-11-06 22:36:27 UTC
Refeshing the window with icon view does indeed change it to list-view
if the other has list-view. (2.1.2)
Comment 5 Sebastien Bacher 2003-12-03 13:44:31 UTC
Still an issue with nautilus 2.4.1 and 2.5.2, I'm updating the versions.
Comment 6 Vincent Noel 2004-08-03 18:44:59 UTC
Still there in nautilus 2.7.2.
Comment 7 Vincent Noel 2004-10-01 19:45:01 UTC
With the spatial nautilus it's actually a lot harder to open two windows for the
same directory, so the bug is not that important anymore...
You can still trigger it by playing with the browser mode though.

Considering that in recent nautilus the window is the folder, would it make
sense to change the "view as" mode in every window ? I.e if you have several
windows opened of the same directory and you change the "view as" mode in one,
change it in all the windows ?
Comment 8 Christian Neumair 2005-07-19 07:19:23 UTC
Usability team, I find Vincent's idea interesting. Do you think it is friendly
to change the view in all windows viewing a particular folder when it is changed
in one? Since views are mapped to directories, this would make sense IMHO. On
the other hand, maybe the user wants different views on one directory - I'd like
to know why the original reporter needs this feature, though.
Comment 9 Calum Benson 2005-07-19 11:40:10 UTC
My hunch is that, in browser mode, the view setting should apply per window, not
per folder.  Hard to give a very convincing explanation as to why, except
perhaps the 'least surprise' principle... having an action surreptitiously
change things in windows you might not even be looking at isn't usually a good
idea.  

Also, I suppose, if you've deliberately engineered a situation where you have
two windows open for the same folder, chances are it's *because* you want two
different views of the same information, for whatever reason... there isn't
really any other benefit in having two windows open for the same folder that I
can think of.
Comment 10 Christian Neumair 2005-07-19 11:50:35 UTC
Calum: ...I think the current concept isn't very convincing either. IMHO the
proposal mentioned in bug 158802 solves this in a clean way, although people may
not understand the complete separation between browser and spatial mode view
settings.
Comment 11 Calum Benson 2005-07-19 11:59:13 UTC
If by the 'current concept' you mean the buggy behaviour that prompted the bug
report in the first place, then I agree... it was (and is) broken.  I was just
suggesting which of the two possible ways I thought we should fix it :)
Comment 12 André Klapper 2008-09-28 14:12:08 UTC
I can't reproduce this in 2.22.5.1 by using browser mode to open the same folder twice. Anybody still running into this, or can this be closed as obsolete?
Comment 13 Adalbert Dawid 2008-09-28 20:04:38 UTC
I can reproduce it here on Debian Lenny, Nautilus 2.22.5.1
Comment 14 Cosimo Cecchi 2008-09-29 20:07:13 UTC
Yes, still there with Nautilus 2.24.
Comment 15 William Jon McCann 2012-08-24 20:16:07 UTC
Fixed by ab9ed7c1491331fffb75dfc3842e0918b75b744e I think.