GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 736534
Confusing "Sharing" info bar in Downloads
Last modified: 2014-11-21 16:31:53 UTC
Created attachment 285994 [details] screenshot 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?
-> gnome-user-share That bar is provided by a Nautilus extension installed by gnome-user-share.
(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?
(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).
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.