GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 360516
spatial nautilus should remember selected items
Last modified: 2012-07-20 15:18:49 UTC
That bug has been opened on https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/64287 "Binary package hint: nautilus One of the main features of spatial nautilus is that a given folder is supposed to remember how it was left when you closed it. Now it does remember its position and scrolling, but it fails to remember which files you had selected which deters from the whole spatial concept. Is there a good reason for it to work like this?"
This still a very frustrating bug that remains in Gnome 2.24.1: Nautilus 2.24.1. I think this is a bug and not really a wishlist item. Reproduce it: 1. Open home dir in Nautilus. 2. Select a subdirectory of home, say "my_dir". 3. Open that dir by hitting Enter or Ctrl+o. 4. Click Nautilus' "BACK" button. 5. BUG: Actual Behavior is that the selection is cleared. Expected behavior is that the selection remain from the last time I viewed that directory. Caveat and inconsistency: 1. Open home dir in Nautilus. 2. Select a subdirectory of home, say "my_dir". 3. Open that dir by hitting Enter or Ctrl+o. 4. Click Nautilus' "UP" button. 5. The behavior that I would expect for going BACK is is found! The subdirectory ("my_dir") is now in the selection. In fact, would say this could be another bug as well. I expect the "UP" action to act as if I am navigating to a new directory, a fresh start. I do not want the directory I was in to be selected. Perhaps the code for BACK and UP got swapped accidentally? Example use case: I want to examine a directory's contents before doing something with it (copying, moving, deleting, etc.): 1. Open my home directory in Nautilus. 2. Double-click some directory, say "my_dir" to view its contents. 3. I see that it's some stuff I want to copy to a flash drive. 4. Use Nautilus' "Back" button to go back to my home directory. 5. Assuming that the "my_dir" directory remains selected, I can easily pick it out in the long list of files without worrying if I got the right one or not. I can even do a Edit->Copy without having to find "my_dir" again and reselect.
Changing component as a part of ongoing bug reorganisation work.
Spatial mode was removed for GNOME 3, closing as OBSOLETE