GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 311340
Nautilus double entries of Home is irritating.
Last modified: 2005-12-18 02:27:50 UTC
I was quite irritated some days ago when I reported my last bugreport about ghosted entries within GtkFileChooser and then got shown two "Home" dirs in the top. I wanted to show the contents of my home dir and by mistake pressed "home" instead of "Home". I think this needs some rethinking here and thus I file it as usability issues and then I saw the same to be in Nautilus and thus wanted to file it too.
Similar bug report here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311339
Created attachment 49625 [details] What is What ?
I added some further feedback to #311339 so I don't need to repeat it :)
Ok I spent some time doing some small patches for #311339 and changed the GtkFileChooser to how I think that it might be better for usability. I now spent some time and did the same with Nautilus and personally this is less confusing than having two "home" shown. But then it's up to the usability people to talk further for it. I here give you an illustration how my new patch looks.
Created attachment 49655 [details] [review] Patch changing behavior to Mac OS style.
Created attachment 49656 [details] How the patch looks
Priority=high because of the patch, and status=new since I've the same problem. Comment on the patch: you use g_strdup_printf() witch allocate new memory... I think that make a memory leak ! but i'm not expert.
Indeed it does and I am quite aware of g_strdup_printf() returns a newly allocated string. This patch was quite basic and temporarely got attached so people "the usability guys mainly" can fiddle around with it and base their tests on it whether a change makes sense or not. We can fix this small issue afterwards.
This was resolved by the commit from bug #317962. Thanks anyway, Ali. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 317962 ***