GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 762721
Remember open tabs
Last modified: 2021-06-18 15:56:06 UTC
Dear all, Inspired by this [1] question on AskUbuntu, I would like to hear the opinion of others on a feature for Nautilus to remember the open tabs across sessions. Do you consider this a useful feature for future versions of Nautilus? Thankfully, ~Robert [1] http://askubuntu.com/questions/738509/how-can-i-make-nautilus-file-manager-remember-my-open-tabs
Please provide a common use case that justifies adding and maintaining additional code.
Dear Andre, I drew inspiration for this request from the default behaviour of common web browsers that preserve tabs across sessions to quickly allow the user to continue work from where he or she had left off. I might work on a specific project that involves having multiple folders opened as tabs. I could bookmark them all to access them after closing my Nautilus session. However, I would have to restore multiple tabs this way which is not as convenient as having Nautilus remembering my open tabs. Thankfully, ~Robert
Even Terminal persists the arrangement of tabs across restarts, as do most multi-document interface applications like editors. The simplest use case for me is that I get my web browser, email etc always to download anything to ~/Downloads, so I always know where the file went. Then I have Nautilus with a tab open to ~/Downloads and another tab open in my current project directory. I commonly also have a tab open in a directory where I store reference material used across projects. And so on. Being able to get all these tabs open immediately after graphical login would save me minutes every time I login. Thanks, Graham
GNOME is going to shut down bugzilla.gnome.org in favor of gitlab.gnome.org. As part of that, we are mass-closing older open tickets in bugzilla.gnome.org (resources are unfortunately quite limited so not every ticket can get handled). If you can still reproduce the situation described in this ticket in a recent and supported software version of Files (nautilus), then please follow https://wiki.gnome.org/GettingInTouch/BugReportingGuidelines and create a new ticket at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/issues/ Thank you for your understanding and your help.