GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 522917
Default location of mounted volumes must be $HOME
Last modified: 2013-04-26 11:49:28 UTC
When possible (When a login is used?) when accessing a mounted volume, the default location displayed should be $HOME. Indeed, when you are accessing a volume using a login, you want, most of the time, to access your files. And some SSH or FTP hosting server with thousand of accounts, it can be a pain to browse through all the / then /home folders. Worst : sometimes you simply don't have read/browse access to the / of the mounted volume, only to a specific subset. The fact that the volume is mounted at the root is not relevant here, this bug is only about user interface.
seconding this; even when you ssh in a terminal, you initially are positionned on the remote home. Nautilus should do the same.
I agree on this. Also, the "Connect to server..." dialog UI is a bit misleading. It allows to fill in the remote directory, but the value only applies to the Nautilus window which is opened after the connection is created.
Very much agreed. Users don't even expect to see / in many cases. Even worse is the possibility that $HOME is in a nonstandard location - navigating to it from / then becomes tedious.
*** Bug 352359 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Mass component change due to BZ cleanup, sorry for the noise.
The work bringing support for default location was done long time ago, see bug 561998. It's just a matter how you interact with the UI. Clicking the mount on Nautilus sidebar should put you in your remote homedir in the sftp case. But opening a location directly by entering formatted URI would put you in the path specified, usually root. Same goes for (3.4.x) Connect to Server where we construct an URI, again with no path, thus root.
Pushed a fix for this bug to git master now.
*** Bug 168532 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***