GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 171218
'Browse Network' closes the 'Connect the Server' dialog
Last modified: 2010-07-04 23:19:15 UTC
The 'Browse Network' button in the 'Connect to Server' dialog destroys the dialog. This may not be the right behavior since a user might want to browse the network and then connect to some server. From usability point of view, if 'Browse Network' is part of 'Connect to Server' dialog without any functional dependency, then it could be provided as the File menu item seperately. Other information:
I modified the 'Browse Network' callback to prevent the dialog from getting destroyed. However, I found another problem there. The 'Connect to Server' dialog always remains on top of other nautilus windows. So, the Network Folder is obscured by it and would not come on top. This problem does not occur with the Places->'Connect to Server' option from panel. IMO, the reason is: this is invoked as a seperate process and thus the stacking is not affected. I am trying to find out how the Preferences dialog is doing it correctly. They are similar as in they both exist as nautilus spawns, as well as binaries.
Kaushal: You should add gdk_window_set_group (GTK_WIDGET (window)->window, GTK_WIDGET (window)->window); in src/nautilus-connect-server-dialog.c:nautilus_connect_server_dialog_new inside the if (window) branch.
Created attachment 52217 [details] [review] This is not the fix. Just a work in progress. Christian, Thanks for your response and putting in a suggestion. I tried it out, but somehow it does not work in the expected manner. I have attached the diff for your second look, as I am still missing out on something.
The patch looks nice and partially works for me. The issue seems to be that metacity associates the newly created "network:///" window to the currently open "Connect to Server" dialog. This could vanish by resolving bug 116004.
Mass changing Nautilus version for bugs that have GNOME 2.13 version info.
I would vote to remove the remove the 'Browse Network' button, this is available from many other places, plus personally I find it rather inconsistent behavior (I have seen this sort of shortcut button nowhere else). I would like to add a help button to the 'Connect to Server' dialog, removing the button would leave some space for this also :-) Could I please have some feedback, who thinks the button should stay, who would have it go, can I add a help button next to it ? Love Karderio
The button seems to have been removed (http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/nautilus/trunk/src/nautilus-connect-server-dialog.c?r1=13479&r2=13797). That said, this attracted objections in http://www.arsgeek.org/2008/05/31/six-annoyances-in-hardy-heron-ubuntu/, saying: "I guess you need to know the exact name of the Samba or Windows share that you want to connect to? If so, that’s pretty annoying. It’s also inconsistent, because when I tried to add a printer on a remote machine, I could browse the network from the printer dialog box."
Patch no longer applies. Setting status.
As the button to browse the network has been removed - could we close this bug?
Yeah, this is obsolete.