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Bug 95973 - Tree is always stupid and massive because it stores what I have had open.
Tree is always stupid and massive because it stores what I have had open.
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 87153
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: [obsolete] Sidebar Panel: Tree
unspecified
Other All
: Normal trivial
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-10-16 19:10 UTC by Matthew Forrester
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.0


Description Matthew Forrester 2002-10-16 19:11:00 UTC 
In Nautilus when you bring up a tree view it
stores what I was doing last time it was open, so
the list is always really really big. this makes
it hard to find where you are and where you are
going, unless you close everything down behind
you. In other file managers the tree only shows
what has been done in that window at that time.

There seems to have been a deliberate attempt to
store this information (I think i saw it in
gconf), which does not seem to make sense to me,
as when your doing file management the important
information  is that file a is now in location b,
To store the fact that I was once in location f
seems illogical to me. What are other peoples
thoughts on this?
Comment 1 John Fleck 2002-10-17 01:47:24 UTC 
Given that there was apparently a deliberate attempt to do it this
way, I'd love to hear an argument from one of the developers/usabilty
people about why it was done this way.
Comment 2 Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail] 2002-10-17 02:12:09 UTC 
well usually it is considered a good thing to save a users state.
However I'm not really a tree view user so i'm not sure if this is
good or bad. CCing usability, i think calum uses the tree so maybe he
has an opinion. The reporter is right on one thing though, the state
shouldn't be saved in gconf..thats not whats it for..but thats another
bug :)_
Comment 3 Timo Aaltonen 2002-10-17 12:34:27 UTC 
I am using the tree view, and this really is a nuisance.
Comment 4 Calum Benson 2002-10-21 18:19:12 UTC 
I agree the current tree behaviour is poor.  I think this is basically
a dup of #87153.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 87153 ***