Folder loading issues

[Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>]

Hi Charlie! :)

Thanks for getting in touch. Sorry for the slow response... I've been
busy at GUADEC (the annual GNOME conference).

On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 10:48 -0700, Charlie De wrote: 
> Hello all,
> 
> I am having some problems with Nautilus 2.30.1 and have written about them on 
> Ubuntuforums.org in the following thread:
> 
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9622555
> 
> Afterwards I stumbled upon Allan Day's blog, left a comment, and he suggested I 
> post here.
> 
> What I said in the Ubuntuforums thread isn't as accurate as it could be, so here 
> is more detailed information.  To recap, I have a folder of over 1000 JPEG 
> photos, mostly less than 10Mb in size, some up to 30Mb.  I have thumbnails set 
> to show for files under 1Gb.  I'm using Ubuntu 10.04.
> 
> * When I click on the folder bookmark in the side pane to quickly open the 
> folder, the focus remains on the side bar.  Pressing PageUp or PageDown to 
> scroll the folder serves only to highlight folder icons in the side bar. The 
> problem is intermittent, and seems to be related to navigation and the changing 
> of Views.  I have mostly experienced it when the folder is set to List View.

It does seem that there is a delay in focus being moved to the view
area. I've opened a new bug for this [1]. Feel free to add any details
that I've missed or just hit the commit button if you want to subscribe
to the bug but not change it.

> * When I open the folder, I can't change Views until it has finished drawing the 
> file thumbnails.  If I click on the Views popup menu, it lets me select a 
> different view, say Icon View, but that doesn't actually do anything.  I have to 
> wait for the drawing of thumbnails to finish, then select the new View again.

I'm unable to reproduce this, but feel free to report it as a bug if you
think it's a genuine issue.

> * While the file thumbs are being drawn, the files "dance" crazily up and down 
> the list. I have the sort order set to Date Modified.

Yes, this is an issue that we're aware of. I think there might have been
some changes which will help with this in the next version.

> * Even though the preference setting to show folders first in the list of 
> contents is not ticked, when the thumbnails are done, the contents of the folder 
> are always scrolled down to where it contains a folder. There seems no way of 
> having it scrolled to the top of the list.

That's strange. It shouldn't scroll down at all, should it? Does this
happen every time? Is it specific to particular folders? Do you have any
files or folders selected when this occurs?

> That's it.  I've registered with Bugzilla to report these as bugs, and verified 
> my registration, but it's not letting me log in. 

Oh! Feel free to ask on the #bugs IRC channel about that.

> So if there's someone here 
> that cares about making Nautilus better, please consider testing and ultimately 
> submitting the bugs.  Or best of all, fixing them?  That would be great! :-)

We all care about making Nautilus better, but the fact is that there
aren't that many people working on Nautilus right now and we have a lot
of bugs!

Allan

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=625820
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