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Bug 736534 - Confusing "Sharing" info bar in Downloads
Confusing "Sharing" info bar in Downloads
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-user-share
Classification: Core
Component: bluetooth
3.13.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-user-share maintainers
gnome-user-share maintainers
Depends on: 740369
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2014-09-12 08:05 UTC by Allan Day
Modified: 2014-11-21 16:31 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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2014-09-12 08:05 UTC, Allan Day
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Description Allan Day 2014-09-12 08:05:19 UTC
Created attachment 285994 [details]
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Testing Fedora 21 with GNOME 3.13.91, there's a confusing info bar shown for the downloads folder. It isn't clear what it is, what it does, why someone would want it. It also isn't possible to dismiss the info bar.

These issues can be resolved with UI changes but, before we get into that, I'd like to ask the question: is this functionality really interesting enough to advertise to users in such a prominent manner?
Comment 1 Cosimo Cecchi 2014-09-13 05:37:44 UTC
-> gnome-user-share

That bar is provided by a Nautilus extension installed by gnome-user-share.
Comment 2 Bastien Nocera 2014-09-14 17:48:41 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
<snip>
> These issues can be resolved with UI changes but, before we get into that, I'd
> like to ask the question: is this functionality really interesting enough to
> advertise to users in such a prominent manner?

Often enough that I regularly get asked how to enable the receiver side of things for Bluetooth transfers.

What exactly is it you wanted us to do here?
Comment 3 Allan Day 2014-09-16 13:43:29 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
...
> What exactly is it you wanted us to do here?

For 3.14, I think we should permanently hide the info bar. For 3.16, we should move the Bluetooth receive settings from Sharing (in the control center) to Bluetooth. This will make them more discoverable (sharing settings are about giving your stuff away, not receiving stuff from other devices).
Comment 4 Bastien Nocera 2014-11-21 16:31:53 UTC
commit b13d1ef86c0852ae662261416427bb4db11eba40
Author: Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>
Date:   Fri Nov 21 17:28:06 2014 +0100

    extension: Never show an info bar in Downloads
    
    And remove the gnome-bluetooth dependency from the nautilus extension.
    
    https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=736534

The info bar is still present in the Public directory, see bug 740375.