Re: [Usability] nautilus folder creation

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, markus hammer wrote:

> Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:53:20 +0200
> From: markus hammer <hammer kunstradio at>
> To: Gnome UI <usability gnome org>
> Subject: [Usability] nautilus folder creation
>
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155179


> Reporter: hm sabotage at (markush)

> the create new folder action should create a new folder and subsequently
> trigger the renaming of it. why? because no one creates folders named
> untitled folder, the naming of the folder allways the next action the
> user has to do.
>
> as it is now: the user creates a new folder, then has to right-click it
> again to
> rename it.
>
> as it should be: user creates folder, and automatically get the
> interface to
> rename it.

> any more takes on this?

Yes.   This is the right thing to do.

Moved from Unconfirmed to New.

(and here's the gist of what I added to the bug report)

I'm getting some strangely inconsistant behaviour (I think the developers
were probably trying too hard to be clever).

If I right click on my Desktop on Gnome 2.6.1 (Debian) to create an New
folder I will be prompted to rename it.
However if there is already a folder called "untitled folder" on my
desktop then "untitled folder 1" (etc) gets created without providing the
prompt to change the name.

Why start with "Untitled Folder" why not start with "Untitled Folder 1"?
I never understood why they were called "Untitled Folder" because that is
a title.
I always thought something like "New Folder" would make more sense but
then again once you have created it is no longer new is it?


Sincerely

Alan Horkan

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