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Bug 639753 - Misleading file names generated when using context menu
Misleading file names generated when using context menu
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: File and Folder Operations
2.32.x
Other Linux
: Normal trivial
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-01-17 15:04 UTC by Chris Wilson
Modified: 2012-08-16 15:27 UTC
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Description Chris Wilson 2011-01-17 15:04:26 UTC 
Originally reported at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/703646

Misleading file names generated when using context menu

1. Right click Desktop > Create Document > Empty File
2. New empty file, named "new file" created on Desktop
3. Double click newly created "new file", file opens in the default text editor
4. Type some text into file, and save
5. Right click Desktop > Create Document > Empty File
6. New empty file, named "new file (copy)" created on Desktop

"new file (copy)" is a misleading name, as the second file is not a copy of the first file, nor has any copying taken place

Ideally change automatic naming to reflect this is a second new empty file with no connection to the first
Possibly "new file (2)", or similar
Comment 1 André Klapper 2011-01-17 22:01:05 UTC 
/libnautilus-private/nautilus-file-operations.c
Comment 2 Timothy Arceri 2011-10-06 06:39:24 UTC 
This is fixed in nautilus 3
Comment 3 William Jon McCann 2012-08-16 15:27:38 UTC 
Ok.