Nautilus

search should prioritize name field

Bug #1524610 reported by Humphrey van Polanen Petel on 2015-12-10

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This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Nautilus	Confirmed	Medium	gnome-bugs #760297
	nautilus (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

The width of columns in Nautilus appears to be averaged across all columns such that all columns display as much as possible.
The consequence of this is that long names in the location-column will cause the name in the name-column to be truncated.
The problem with this is that files with long names cannot readily be identified, because the differentiating part of the name is truncated as with, for instance, suffixes denoting version numbers.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.10.1-0ubuntu9.10
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-55.74~14.04.1-generic 3.16.7-ckt19
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-55-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.19
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Dec 10 16:25:03 2015
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
GsettingsChanges: b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-column-order' b"['name', 'size', 'type', 'date_modified', 'date_accessed', 'owner', 'group', 'permissions', 'mime_type', 'where']"
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-09-08 (93 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20150218.1)
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Humphrey van Polanen Petel (hpvpp) wrote on 2015-12-10:

#1

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2016-01-07:

#2

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Low

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Humphrey van Polanen Petel (hpvpp) wrote on 2016-01-07:

#3

reported upstream as 760297

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Humphrey van Polanen Petel (hpvpp) wrote on 2016-01-07: Re: [Bug 1524610] Re: search should prioritize name field

#4

done
reported upstream as 760297

On 07/01/16 20:41, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> The width of columns in Nautilus appears to be averaged across all columns such that all columns display as much as possible.
> The consequence of this is that long names in the location-column will cause the name in the name-column to be truncated.
> The problem with this is that files with long names cannot readily be identified, because the differentiating part of the name is truncated as with, for instance, suffixes denoting version numbers.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2016-01-08:

#5

thanks

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Triaged

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2016-01-08:

#6

oh, and please don't write my email in plain text in bugzilla comment next time, the information is not useful and helps spam bot to pick the emails up for sending ads

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2016-01-08

Changed in nautilus:
importance:	Unknown → Medium
status:	Unknown → Confirmed

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Humphrey van Polanen Petel (hpvpp) wrote on 2016-01-08:

#7

Okay.

Then how do I phrase the comment that I was requested to move the bug
upstream?

On 08/01/16 17:51, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> oh, and please don't write my email in plain text in bugzilla comment
> next time, the information is not useful and helps spam bot to pick the
> emails up for sending ads
>

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2016-01-08:

#8

> Then how do I phrase the comment that I was requested to move the bug upstream?

I'm unsure the fact that your were "requested to move the bug" is useful, that's an upstream issue and you are reported it to them, you could have gone directly their way. In any case if you want to provide that information you can use "I originally reported that bug on launchpad https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1524610 and was asked to report it upstream as well", I don't think who triaged the bug and added the comment is an important detail for the upstream bug resolution...

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Humphrey van Polanen Petel (hpvpp) wrote on 2016-01-08:

#9

Okay and thanks, Sebastien.

On 08/01/16 19:30, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
>> Then how do I phrase the comment that I was requested to move the bug
> upstream?
>
> I'm unsure the fact that your were "requested to move the bug" is
> useful, that's an upstream issue and you are reported it to them, you
> could have gone directly their way. In any case if you want to provide
> that information you can use "I originally reported that bug on
> launchpad
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1524610 and was
> asked to report it upstream as well", I don't think who triaged the bug
> and added the comment is an important detail for the upstream bug
> resolution...
>

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