GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 473981
Create folder first creates `untitled folder' and then renames it
Last modified: 2016-09-06 08:44:19 UTC
Please describe the problem: When one creates a folder in Nautilus, it first creates a folder and then renames it, as opposed to waiting for the user to supply a name and then creating a folder with the correct name. This is particularly annoying when connecting to a network server with very high latency; it adds an extra wait because now we perform two actions instead of one. Steps to reproduce: 1. Connect to a (preferably slow) FTP server 2. Create a new folder 3. Give it some name 4. Press enter Actual results: There is a long pause after steps 2 and 4. Expected results: Step 2 should be instant; there is no reason to actually create `untitled folder'. (4 understandably causes a pause since the network is slow.) Does this happen every time? Yes Other information: This also causes the additional oddity that, if you have two views of the same directory open (using browser mode since spatial does not allow that, to the best of my knowledge.... or using some other file-manager or whatever), you will see a random `untitled folder' appear that, while not confusing, seems extremely pointless.
There is a similar issue described on https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/302977
That should be fixed with the new dialog in 3.18.