GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 307019
Nautilus side panel does not show Notes properly
Last modified: 2010-12-04 12:18:12 UTC
Distribution/Version: Gentoo the side panel in nautilus, when set to "Notes", does not show the note in the file selected in the window, but instead only shows notes set on the folder in which the browser is in. In my opinion, it should show the Note for the folder/file selected. Otherwise there is little point setting a note at all. 1. open nautilus with side panel 2. set side panel to "Notes" 3. make a note on a file 4. select the file with one left mouse click what happens: no note in the side panel (side panel only shows Note of the current folder address) what should happen: note of the file/folder selected should be shown. thanks! Matt
I noticed the same thing and would like it to be fixed. thanks and good work
is it possible to read the notes of the folders, but is not possible to read the notes of the files in the side panel of nautilus. j.
Usability team, what do you think? Should the notes sidepane refer to the open folder, the selection or to both?
I agree the ability to add/show Notes to a file is pretty hidden at the moment, so it could certainly make sense to show (and allow editing of) the note(s) for the current selection. To see the note for the enclosing folder, you could either have the user deselect everything (e.g. by clicking on the folder background-- still not possible in list view, though), or perhaps just split the notes section into two, with one area for the current folder, and one for the current selection. The first option is a little less discoverable, but fits with the 'background represents the folder' model that nautilus uses for context menus too, so I think it's probably preferable. Either way, multiple selections would be an issue... you could either show nothing unless all the notes were identical (HIG-compliant, but probably quite a costly computation), or you'd have to show each note separately somehow. But if you had a lot of files selected, that could look pretty ugly too. And it doesn't easily let you set the same note for each selected file, which is sometimes useful. Third (but least desirable) option would just be not to show notes for multiple selections, with an explanation in the side pane, e.g. '(Multiple notes selected)' or something. This is similar to what the file Properties dialog does (in fact it doesn't even show you the Notes tab for multiple selections), but that's a bit of a cop-out. If we choose to do something more functional here, we should push the same solution to the Properties dialog.
Obsolete now that the notes sidebar has gone. Closing.