GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 45708
Refresh should not change the "View as" mode
Last modified: 2012-08-24 20:16:07 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.
Changing to "old" target milestone for all bugs laying around with no milestone set.
Confirmed on 1.1.18
I'm pretty sure this is a problem with per directory view settings.
Refeshing the window with icon view does indeed change it to list-view if the other has list-view. (2.1.2)
Still an issue with nautilus 2.4.1 and 2.5.2, I'm updating the versions.
Still there in nautilus 2.7.2.
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 ?
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.
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.
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.
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 :)
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?
I can reproduce it here on Debian Lenny, Nautilus 2.22.5.1
Yes, still there with Nautilus 2.24.
Fixed by ab9ed7c1491331fffb75dfc3842e0918b75b744e I think.