Ubuntu
nautilus package

Information sidebar should display info on selected object

Bug #23734 reported by Wouter Stomp on 2005-10-11

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #13253: Nautilus information side panel. Edit Remove

	Status	Importance	Assigned to
Firefox Themes for Ubuntu	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned
Nautilus	Fix Released	Unknown	gnome-bugs #122045
nautilus (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Wishlist	Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Currently the information sidebar is of very limited use because it only shows
info about the currently open folder. It would be much more useful to display
info on the selected object(s). And it could be improved by also showing
metadata and some action buttons.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122045: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122045

See original description

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/lucid/nautilus

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Wouter Stomp (wouterstomp-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2005-10-11:

Information sidebar mockup Edit (325.7 KiB, image/png)

Created an attachment (id=4525)
Information sidebar mockup

I have attached a mockup I found that someone created for kde4 but it shows
nicely what I would expect from an info sidebar and how it could be more
useful.

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Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis) wrote on 2005-10-11:

Thank you for your report. However, I think that this is a bug you should file
in the gnome bugzilla so all distributions can benefit from such an enhancement.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2005-10-11:

That's known upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122045, I've
forwarded your comment/mockup to it

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Lakin Wecker (lakin) wrote on 2006-02-20:

Changing to confirmed, as upstream bug is NEW, and this has been marked as an upstream fix.

Changed in nautilus:
status:	Unconfirmed → Confirmed

Sebastien Bacher (seb128) on 2006-02-20

Changed in nautilus:
status:	Unconfirmed → Confirmed

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2006-06-15

Changed in nautilus:
status:	Unconfirmed → Confirmed

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Pizuz (florian-fahr) wrote on 2008-02-22:

Four major versions of Gnome later it still seems to ba an issue. This bug has been known for amazing five years, now. Isn't there a thing one could do about it?

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2008-02-22:

You are lucky, that's open source you are talking about and you can work on that, submit a patch and contribute at making the software better

Changed in nautilus:
assignee:	seb128 → desktop-bugs
status:	Confirmed → Triaged

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Pizuz (florian-fahr) wrote on 2008-02-22:

I honestly would, but unfortunately my programming expertice is limited to BASIC (mostly C64) and Assembly (solely C64 and not even that good). And some PASCAL. And Logo ;)

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2008-06-24:

not sure why there is a firefox theme task there but it doesn't seem to be correct, closing this one

Changed in firefox-themes-ubuntu:
status:	New → Invalid

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Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout) wrote on 2008-10-08:

this would be really really high on my wishlist. nautilus is a program that everyone uses, and fixing this would help bring it on a par with Windows Explorer

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2009-05-29

Changed in nautilus:
status:	Confirmed → Fix Released

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2009-06-01:

#10

the bug has been fixed upstream now

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status:	Triaged → Fix Committed

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2009-06-15:

#11

This bug was fixed in the package nautilus - 1:2.27.2-0ubuntu1

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nautilus (1:2.27.2-0ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * New upstream release: (LP: #387266)
    - Support ctrl-drop in list view (LP: #261108)
    - Allow user defined keyboard shortcuts for extension items
    - Fix crash on click on toolbar (LP: #375927)
    - Fix crash on entering empty location (LP: #378254)
    - Added daemon-mode (don't exit with last window)
    - Display info about the selected item in the information sidebar
      (LP: #23734)
    - Sort applications in open with (LP: #360553)
    - Fix text going dark if setting dark background (LP: #356289)
    - Update nautilus website url in about dialog (LP: #374555)