GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 742100
Preferences dialog has no save / ok / commit / apply button - thus changes cannot be applied
Last modified: 2014-12-30 01:09:24 UTC
Created attachment 293459 [details] Screenshot of Dialog with missing commit / cancel buttons As per the title above, the preferences dialog for Nautilus has no way (at least no way I can figure out) to commit a change in the preferences. My aim is to enable "Sort folders before files", however this issue affects any kind of change I tried within the preferences dialog not just this. Screenshot attached (Alt+PrtSc). One can notice also there is no X (close) button or something of the sort - no way of officially closing the dialog except for Alt+F4. Hope this bug isn't a duplicate, but I couldn't find this issue reported. Nautilus version: GNOME nautilus 3.12.2 Gnome Shell version: GNOME Shell 3.12.2 (PPA) APT Repository used: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/gnome3-team/gnome3-staging/ubuntu trusty main OS: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS Trusty x64 VGA: VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09) CPU: Intel Core i5-2450M 2.5GHz RAM: 8GB DDR3 OS was installed from the Ubuntu Gnome 14.04.1 ISO not standard Ubuntu ISO. Everything up to date at the time of writing this report. Thanks
Thanks for the bug report. There is no need for a button to commit the changes, because all changes are applied instantly. If they are not applied instantly, that's a bug somewhere. (In reply to comment #0) > My aim is to enable "Sort folders before files",... The "Sort folders before files" was broken in nautilus 3.12, and this is fixed in 3.14 (bug 730867). So, that's the reason you are not able to enable "Sort folders before files". As a workaround, you can run this command in the Terminal to enable: gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.preferences sort-directories-first true And to disable: gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.preferences sort-directories-first false > ... however this issue affects any > kind of change I tried within the preferences dialog not just this. Which changes did you try? Which of them are not working?
Thanks for your feedback. That workaround did the trick. Apologies for > ... however this issue affects any > kind of change I tried within the preferences dialog not just this. Just realised the ones I tried were "default" setting ones for example: View *new* folders using ... So apologies there. I guess the bug can be marked closed now? Thanks and regards
Yes. Marking as resolved. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 730867 ***