GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 778548
In GNOME Files, [Right click > New Document] does not show all available file templates
Last modified: 2021-06-18 15:56:18 UTC
I'm using GNOME Files (nautilus) 3.22.2 on Fedora 25 Workstation x86_64. I have 36 file templates in ~/Templates/, but when trying to create a file from template in Nautilus, it only seems to show the first 30 files. Here's what I'm doing: 1. Open a directory in GNOME Files where I want to create a file. 2. Right-click in the empty space > New Document > ...? 3. Try to scroll down by moving scroll wheel, mousing over the bottom of the file templates list, and/or hitting arrow keys. Mouse hovering and scrolling does nothing. Arrow keys go back to the top of the list instead of revealing more list items.
This _is not_ a bug. There are TEMPLATE_LIMIT in the code (https://git.gnome.org/browse/nautilus/tree/src/nautilus-files-view.c#n121). Of course, removing this limit and getting an unlimited list is child's play, but this should be the maintainers decision. Really, I don't think that this will be done, because the large lists looks not nice.
I'm sure there's a way it could be formatted to look nice. Or users with many templates could instead open a pop-up dialog which would let them scroll through the full list.
same behavior when show nautilus-scripts (files in /~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts): show only first 30 files (and without underscore) In previous version (ubuntu-gnome 16.04/ nautilus 3.12.2) there were two arrows at the top and bottom to scroll the list.
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.