GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 680982
Default to Recent location
Last modified: 2021-06-18 15:32:57 UTC
It would be nice for Nautilus to start up with a view that is immediately useful without having to do any navigation or searching. Showing the Recent view by default would be nice because of the higher likelihood of the visible items being relevant.
Created attachment 220101 [details] [review] all: make Recent the default location, if supported Unfortunately, we seem to have some performance issues at the moment, so this is not really as useful as it would be (not specifically related to recent://, but there's usually quite a bit of data in it). I think we need to figure those out before switching to that as default.
Comment on attachment 220101 [details] [review] all: make Recent the default location, if supported Removing from the unreviewed patch queue.
Against this! Default behaviour should be always HOME_DIR. That is was users expects and wants. A solution for users how want presented "Recent files", could be a startup option.
Why did this suddenly become a 3.14 milestone? Removing again. If at all, maybe 3.16 for such a disruptive behavioral change. Plus dependency unresolved.
(In reply to comment #4) > Why did this suddenly become a 3.14 milestone? Because it is a positive change, and part of the long-term plan for Nautilus. I'll update the milestones to 3.16 when I get chance. > ... If at all, maybe > 3.16 for such a disruptive behavioral change. So you police design decisions now? > Plus dependency unresolved. So? The target-milestone is a way of tracking what we'd like to get done.
Thanks for clarifying! So I guess part of the confusion was that 3.16 wasn't available as a milestone in the dropdown and while "long-term" (or 3.16) sounds great, setting "3.14" without further explanation after two years of silence made me feel uncomfortable from a stability PoV - 3.14.0 is only four days away and the 3.14.x series is under UI Freeze anyway. I've added the 3.16 project milestone and setting it here; under the assumption you don't really want to get this in for 3.14.
Hello! I see that you want to make thinks faster and more convenient! But please, what ever you do, make it possible to easyly disable this! In general, I'm against this. Why? Because I have reasons and to return to the regualar behaviour, we will have to wait at least another six months: * A user on a UNIX like operating-system expects to land inside the home-directory (see: every shell, nearly every graphical file-browser, especially Nautilus) * Most common and usable place is the home-directory * Nautilus is a file-browser for the hierarchical file-system not an fuzzy-search-store-tool * "Recent" isn't usable by default, it is not a real location by itself e.g. you can't save there files * Users get presented a weird list of file and directories. The ordering is likely not to match the currently useful or prefered one by the user (hierarchical by directory, by type, by date). Let us take the Gtk-File-Choose as an example, I've already got bewildered by the "recent" location: Inside a random application I want to save my stuff. I expect to be directed to my home-directory or current working-directory by default. There I can immediately save the file or can navigate very fast to a subdirectory. I hit "enter" or click "Save" and I doesn't works! Because the dialog in place defaults (for some unknown reason) to "recent", which is not an existing location. Now I spend time to find the reason why it failed, than looking through the unordered list of recent items (maybe lucky) or have to navigate to my home-directory or any other directory manually. This behaviour, as far as I know, managed through the application in place itself, but it give a good impression and could be revised anyway. To be more constructive: It could speed up things often, to remember the "last working directory" and choose this by start-up. For both, Nautilus and Gtk-File-Chooser! It is likely that a user want's to start working again, where the user ended the work last time. But even this, should be an option to turn [on|off]. In both cases, [on] or [off], there is no question like "where the heck I'am?".
->3.18
Allan, what should we do?
Releasing the 3.18 target. We discussed it and Recent is still too slow to not be problematic as a default view.
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