GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 632428
Network bookmarks shouldn't duplicate the network entry
Last modified: 2017-08-21 12:56:01 UTC
Let's say you have a bookmark to some sftp, ftp or samba server. Let's call it "foo". Currently, in your sidebar you'll see: =============== Home Filesystem Network sftp on foo /\ sftp on bar /\ Trash --------------- XDG dirs foo bar =============== Where "/\" is the eject/unmount icon/button. This doesn't make a lot of sense. I know you could have multiple bookmarks on a same server, but there's no need to have an additional entry for each server. Also, if I want to eject it, I'd look for the bookmark, not the system places (but I don't, because I typically don't care whether it is connected or not. GIO seems to handle dead connections just fine). Proposal: =============== Home Filesystem Network Trash --------------- XDG dirs foo /\ bar /\ =============== It would be really nice to get this cleaned up for GNOME 3.0 !
So, this still somewhat applies to the current sidebar design. I think if we have a bookmark to a share, and it's connected, we should not show the same share again in Network, and we should just put the eject button on the bookmark itself.
Would it make sense to place network bookmarks under the Network header with the new sidebar design? I'm worried that adding the eject button to the bookmark itself, while a little tidier, would lead us to a similar unhappy situation with some network shares being in one place and other network shares being somewhere else.
The point is still valid. However, the design of the sidebar has evolved. Closing in favor of a newer report that displays the same issue in the current design. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 756418 ***