GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 48470
Sidebar does not remember state
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
To repeat: Open a Nautilus window. Go to, say, "Tree view" in the sidebar and browse your files for awhile. Close the window. The tree view isn't there any more and you have to open it again. The Sidebar should remember its state between instances of a Nautilus window. a. ------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2001-09-09 21:18 -------
I agree with you wholeheartedly on this one. I would like to be able to select the tree view, and have the tree view *always* come up i the future. Is there any work being done on this? The bug has been set on UNCONFIRMED for a long time. I for one can confirm that it is a problem, though I don't have the ability to change the status.
Well, I can mark this bug as confirmed and gnome2. This still happens in nautilus2-- the sidebar remembers that it exists, and has the same width, but the tree tab i left open is now closed. when i open the tree-tab, it's once again collapsed to /
*** Bug 81919 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 88783 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 90309 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I'm bumping this up to "minor" since I think this is a usability bug, rather than a user-visible feature.
This is a highly visible bug. I started using nautilus with gnome2 and it is one of the first problems I noticed (along with bug 82884). And judging by the duplicates I'm not alone... So, any chance this could be retargeted for 2.2.x?
supporting this, treeview should be default.
This bug makes the tree view sidebar totally useless as one has to select it every time. This is one of the most commonly mentioned nautilus bugs and is IMHO severly crippling. I can't imagine that there is a huge amount of code required. A gconf key to save the state of the sidebar. Then nautilus could set that key when the user changes the current sidebar. I think that this should have a higher priority and it would be great to see in 2.2, but if not then 2.4 - but nautilus isn't my area so i'm not going to go messing around with this bug. Luis?
well just to note this. according to havoc you shouldn't use gconf for saving state information, only preferences.
Well however it get's done, it'd be great to do for 2.2.x ;)
I fixed this in cvs. I was lame and used gconf, since some of the other stuff (like sidebar visibility) is also there. I filed a separate bug (107375) about that.