GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 321592
'Open Location' should behave like in file chooser
Last modified: 2010-06-20 21:19:01 UTC
'Open Location' currently opens a dialog with the current directory selected. If I start typing the selection is removed and my input is taken as relative to '/'. The filechooser presents you an empty dialog and takes my inputs as relative to the current location, which is IMHO the better behavior. It allows the following use cases: * step into a deeper hierachy quite fast * use relative paths with ../ * if I want to access a directory under root, '/' isn't to far away Last point: Nautilus would be consistent with filechooser! Other information:
Thanks for your bug report, good catch!
Yeah, I noticed this the other day as well... I think nautilus should follow the file chooser's example too.
*** Bug 328656 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Apologies for spam... marking as AP4 to reflect accessibility impact.
Created attachment 68126 [details] [review] Allows relative paths in "open Location" box Converting from using gnome_vfs_make_uri_from_input to gnome_vfs_make_uri_from_input_with_dirs allows relative uris (and also ones relative to the homedir as an added bonus), but as there isn't an equivalent change for the gnome_vfs_make_uri_from_input_with_trailing_ws call in src/nautilus-location-entry.c yet, there's no autocompletion yet for relative uris.
That doesn't seem right. It should use the windows location, not the current working directory of the nautilus process.
Comment on attachment 68126 [details] [review] Allows relative paths in "open Location" box Marking needs-work as per Alex's comment.
Could the auto-complete methods be synced too? I find the current nautilus "open location" auto-complete to be annoying (as I've gotten into the habit of using this dialogue frequently.) Hitting tab when it doesn't complete moves through the widgets.
With the GVFS migration, this won't work any more, and we'd need an extension to GFilenameCompleter (Bug 586766) in order to do this properly with GVFS.
The location bar now accepts relative paths (see bug 346422). Am closing this bug as obsolete. Please reopen if necessary. :)