-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear developers,
a few weeks ago, I switched from GNOME 3.4 to GNOME 3.8 (on Debian testing) and I wanted to describe my experiences, as I haven't been able to get entirely comfortable with the new Nautilus. I have also tried Nautilus 3.10 on anOpenSUSE live CD to see whether the issues I describe are still present in newer versions (I haven't been able to test 3.12, because on GNOME 3.12 live cd, Nautilus crashes as soon as I try to search). Most of the time, I know pretty well where to find the file(s) I am looking for. In the past, I mostly used type-ahead for this; combined with the location bar (Ctrl+L -- is there a way discover this bar without knowing it is there?) when jumping into a totally differing part of my directory hierarchy. With type-ahead gone, I tried to find alternate ways of navigating, but have only been partially successful -- if you have suggestions, I am glad to here them. I have been mostly using the location bar for now. The disadvantage is that this only helps if I know an unique prefix of the directory name (otherwise i get no completion and no suggestions to continue). May biggest problem with the search is the slowness with a large number of results: For example, I have a directory named "P" in my home. If I now press "P" in my home, Nautilus pretty fast displays a number of results including this directory. But I have almost no chance to select this folder (just pressing "Return" for the first result would be nice, btw), as Nautilus starts listing the other 300000 files (according to "find -iname '*p*' | wc -l") containing a "p". Nautilus becomes unresponsive; sometimes I am able to cancel the operation, sometimes the system offers to kill Nautilus. I feel that Nautilus should be able to protect itself from a number of results it cannot handle. This is particularly annoying because the behaviour can be triggered by just typing too slow or by opening the filter dialog (i.e., filtering for filetype) without typing in any name. That being said, I think I like the idea of search just narrowing down the displayed files. In its current state, the removal of type-ahead is a definite step backwards for me, However, I can imagine a few things so I would not miss it in the future: * Type-ahead like behaviour could be integrated in the location bar: Typing in a directory relative to the current directory could move the selection to the first file matching the prefix. To make this useful, it should be possible to also enter/start files from the location bar (much like in a web browser) * Similar to search, have a "filter" feature: This would restrict the list of displayed files to those matching the search string (this would mostly be like a non-recursive search, except maybe when tree mode is enabled and some trees are expanded). One could imagine a "recursive" check-box switching between these modes. Just entering some string would enter the non-recursive mode by default, while Ctrl+F/the search icon would enter recursive mode. While I am at it, there is some minor issue I have (although I'm not sure whether they are new): Instead of the classic status bar, there is now a status overlay, displaying some information about the currently selected file(s). In particular in list mode, this will(partially) obscur the name/details of the last entry, if the directory is large enough to require scrolling. I can only see this information then by chasing the overlay away with the mouse. Best regards, Lars -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Icedove - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTSm+YAAoJEOUX5T7UhMS6RSIH+wWiD3VRmKGFVdJ7GYN+J0H/ zmA4jz+oXfTi8V5Q8tDpnuXq2/xEzz1GI6x+vpMkL68tHZfFFjcMtlO2BNeXSdpK H9T06t/3VMGoebbPfb3nlI95pSbXLCe2GiU0aX8jkKTru81McQrKDKOq1S4gC05s IznKtkk3si7R39RhWZgmh11nR0BwOLCfzEU4I/O9ciIk/C/rzAVLqwlwHaC8H/8U 20/7uHXaRCtdlMmvJj3Ie0CQKAnRCBBhpNd+ZdiqP/rYyBGTfnbEbOc9qRnVRbDG kgFdvUPMCFKfvGA3nuv/Xsy2M0K2Vac6ptIrf4jQfaNANH03+XUna1dd94BnBvs= =Ym9J -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- nautilus-list mailing list nautilus-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list