GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 656858
NFS mounts treated as local, preview problems
Last modified: 2021-06-18 15:17:47 UTC
If I go to Edit -> Preferences -> Preview in Nautilus 2.32, I have the choice of allowing thumbnails "never", for "local files only" or always. Having just pulled down git master, and looking at src/nautilus-file-management-properties.ui and other code, this appears (to my eyes) to still be the case git master branch. I don't think any major change is needed, it's just the word local is ambiguous and isn't ambiguity bad in code? I certainly assumed my NFS mounted files would not be thumbnailed when I set Nautilus to "Local Files Only". The local-ness of NFS has been dealt with before, such as commit 5146ed76292baec3a96694088080912048ec8fdb back in 2002 You can make large changes if you like, but a change in the wording is all I want. An NFS mount from a client machine in New York over the Internet to say an NFS server in Tokyo would not yield a "local" file by any stretch of the language. Just remove the ambiguity from the verbiage in the UI file. If you want to deal with this at a larger level, that would be fine too. But the wording is ambiguous and misleading as it is now. Most people don't intuit that "local file" means some arcane thing in gio/gvfs, they think local means local. The Ubuntu bug for this is at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/293311 Thanks for all your hard work. GNOME 3 keeps looking better and better. Fixing this will make it even better. -- Dennis
*** Bug 656860 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 665620 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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