Bug 136712 – Drop down path button should only have $HOME in path

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Bug 136712 - Drop down path button should only have $HOME in path


Summary:	Drop down path button should only have $HOME in path


Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE

Product:	nautilus
Classification:	Core
Component:	[obsolete] Spatial Mode
Version:	2.24.x
Hardware:	Other All

Importance:	Normal normal
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Nautilus Maintainers
QA Contact:	Nautilus Maintainers

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Depends on:
Blocks:

Reported:	2004-03-10 03:59 UTC by Daniel Brodie
Modified:	2012-08-12 13:30 UTC

See Also:
GNOME target:	---
GNOME version:	2.23/2.24

Attachments
Proposed patch (against HEAD). (1.56 KB, patch) 2005-07-02 11:27 UTC, Christian Neumair	needs-work	Details \| Review
Mockup with tilde (20.23 KB, image/png) 2005-09-10 13:24 UTC, Vino Ron Sogum		Details
Mockup with an icon (20.65 KB, image/png) 2005-09-10 13:25 UTC, Vino Ron Sogum		Details

Description Daniel Brodie 2004-03-10 03:59:02 UTC

Currently when a user clicks the drop down path button in the spatial
window they also see a 'home' entry which can be quite confusing. People
might think that that is thier home folder. (Same name as under the Places
menu)

Expected behavior:
<quote>
Use ~ as a root: when you are in a subdir of $HOME, or $HOME itself, don't
display path prior to $HOME, but just display a [Home] icon in the button.
See spec page for more details.
</quote>

Source, #11: http://www.gnome.org/~seth/filechooser-spec/tasks.html

I think this should be applied to nautilus as well.

Comment 1 Christian Neumair 2005-06-03 16:16:03 UTC

Thanks for pointing this out! It is still an issue.

Comment 2 Christian Neumair 2005-07-02 11:27:32 UTC

Created attachment 48541 [details] [review]
Proposed patch (against HEAD).

I've also submitted this patch to the nautilus mailing list [1] for review.

[1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2005-July/msg00013.html

Comment 3 Vino Ron Sogum 2005-09-10 13:17:49 UTC

Here is a mockup : http://gnomesupport.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=9869

Comment 4 Vino Ron Sogum 2005-09-10 13:24:27 UTC

Created attachment 52056 [details]
Mockup with tilde

Comment 5 Vino Ron Sogum 2005-09-10 13:25:04 UTC

Created attachment 52057 [details]
Mockup with an icon

Comment 6 Sebastien Bacher 2006-10-09 15:01:52 UTC

Ubuntu bug https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/64068 has some other suggestions about that widget:

"Nautilus spatial has raw display of navigation names like $username and "/" root directory. This beats some purpose since it's designed to be easy to use.

I think it's great if $username be changed into "Home", and "/" root should be changed into "Filesystem" with their corresponding icons.

Additionaly, there should also be a link to "Desktop"."

Comment 7 Cosimo Cecchi 2008-10-18 14:32:40 UTC

Marking patch as "needs-work", as we no longer use GnomeVFS.

Comment 8 William Jon McCann 2012-08-12 13:30:24 UTC

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug.
However, you are using a version that is too old and not supported anymore. GNOME developers are no longer working on that version, so unfortunately there will not be any bug fixes for the version that you use.

By upgrading to a newer version of GNOME you could receive bug fixes and new functionality. You may need to upgrade your Linux distribution to obtain a newer version of GNOME.
Please feel free to reopen this bug if the problem still occurs with a newer version of GNOME.