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Bug 332675 - Two Places menus should either have different names or the same items
Two Places menus should either have different names or the same items
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Sidebar
2.24.x
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-02-26 21:33 UTC by Joachim Noreiko
Modified: 2012-08-24 21:33 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.23/2.24


Description Joachim Noreiko 2006-02-26 21:33:44 UTC 
Writing documentation for the User Guide, I keep having to quantify the term 'Places' menu in awkward ways, eg 
"In a folder window menubar, choose Places → CD/DVD Creator"
or
"choose Places → Computer from the top panel menubar"

This happens because they do not contain the same items.
Either they should, or they should have different names.
Comment 1 Paul Bolle 2008-11-19 23:31:56 UTC 
0) Still valid in 2.24.1.

1) For added confusion: there is also a Places "mode" in the sidebar of the File Browser and a Places sidebar for the file picker dialogs (e.g. "Open File"). They both look alike, but still differ from each other and from the two Places menus mentioned above. That makes four similar, but different lists of places in one desktop! I wonder when I discover the fifth version of a Place list on my desktop ...
Comment 2 Paul Bolle 2008-11-21 11:39:16 UTC 
Part of the cause is likely that three different modules are involved: gnome-panel, gtk+ and nautilus. Some rough bookmarks (to support my memory and maybe help others looking into this too):

Panel:                gnome-panel/gnome-panel/panel-menu-items.c:panel_place_menu_item_create_menu()
Folder Menu:          nautilus/src/nautilus-spatial-window.c: nautilus_spatial_window_init()
File Browser SideBar: nautilus/src/nautilus-places-sidebar.c
File Chooser:         gtk+/gtk/gtkfilechooserdefault.c:shortcuts_list_create()
Comment 3 Allan Day 2010-06-21 13:35:27 UTC 
Yes, we need to be consistent about the format of the various 'places'. This is something we're pursuing at the moment.
Comment 4 André Klapper 2011-08-11 12:27:17 UTC 
[Bumping version number as per comment 1]
Comment 5 William Jon McCann 2012-08-24 21:33:39 UTC 
Only one now.