Public bug reported: Binary package hint: nautilus
This is a very frustrating bug that remains in Gnome 2.24.1: Nautilus 2.24.1. I think this is a bug and not really a wishlist item. Reproduce it: 1. Open home dir in Nautilus. 2. Select a subdirectory of home, say "my_dir". 3. Open that dir by hitting Enter or Ctrl+o. 4. Click Nautilus' "BACK" button. 5. BUG: Actual Behavior is that the selection is cleared. Expected behavior is that the selection remain from the last time I viewed that directory. Caveat and inconsistency: 1. Open home dir in Nautilus. 2. Select a subdirectory of home, say "my_dir". 3. Open that dir by hitting Enter or Ctrl+o. 4. Click Nautilus' "UP" button. 5. The behavior that I would expect for going BACK is is found! The subdirectory ("my_dir") is now in the selection. In fact, would say this could be another bug as well. I expect the "UP" action to act as if I am navigating to a new directory, a fresh start. I do not want the directory I was in to be selected. Perhaps the code for BACK and UP got swapped accidentally? Example use case: I want to examine a directory's contents before doing something with it (copying, moving, deleting, etc.): 1. Open my home directory in Nautilus. 2. Double-click some directory, say "my_dir" to view its contents. 3. I see that it's some stuff I want to copy to a flash drive. 4. Use Nautilus' "Back" button to go back to my home directory. 5. Assuming that the "my_dir" directory remains selected, I can easily pick it out in the long list of files without worrying if I got the right one or not. I can even do a Edit->Copy without having to find "my_dir" again and reselect. This bug may be related to Bug #64287 (spatial nautilus should remember selected items), but that deals with "spatial" nautilus and with closed windows. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: amd64 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus Package: nautilus 1:2.24.1-0ubuntu2 ProcEnviron: PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: nautilus Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic x86_64 ** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-bug -- Selection not remembered when navigating back/forward in browser mode https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/362091 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs