Comment 4 for bug 488129

Ah...

That is *really* complicated for people who are not aware of all this. I had
the impression that the Papercuts was intended to get feedback from a
broader audience. For an *enduser* (even my wife is on Linux) the stated
problems are *one* issue. I understand, that for a developer they break down
into a large number of distinct programming tasks. So the big question would
be: reach out to the user population at large (eventually bugtrack isn't the
right way to collect this feedback and there must be a translation between
end user submissions and launchpad entries.
Lecturing end users about launch pad use is a good way to cut development
off from user feedback - which would be a pitty. Would be a bug in a
lauchpad: "Offer functionality to split one bug filed into a set of related
bugs" --- so the "master-bug" would close when all sub-bugs close.

So I have to submit again? Or is papercuts the wrong place? (I actually
wouldn't mind to sponsor one or the other bug since I lack the C skills to
fix them myself).

:-) stw

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Daniel Fore <email address hidden>wrote:

> @Stephan
>
> Try reading the response again ;) It's hard for developers to track big
> lists of problems like this. He's asking if you could file each request
> as a separate bug report. That'll make it easier for the developers to
> go about implementing these features/fixes.
>
> Also, if you really want to speed up development, you should contact the
> Nautilus developers directly and present them with these problems.
> Unfortunately, the GNOME developers don't use launchpad for their bug
> tracking. So, the people working on the Papercuts project have to end up
> refiling a lot of these bugs "upstream" (where the GNOME developers
> are). This takes time and could mean that your bugs go unnoticed to
> these developers.
>
> --
> Nautilus usability
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/488129
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>
> Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts: New
> Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu: Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> Some usability improvements needed:
>
> 1) Toolbar: button to switch on/off display of hidden files, button for
> network connections
> 2) Additional view mode: group by date, group by file type, group by size
> 3) When copying files and a overwrite warning is shown: show file size and
> date/time for both files
> 4) In File Save dialog: clearly indicate if the currently selected location
> can't be written to
> 5) File dialogs: allow switching of views like in full Nautilus view
> 6) File dialogs: button to toggle visibility of hidden files (currently
> inherits last setting, can't change)
> 7) File dialogs: allow network connect
> 8) File dialogs: allow mount
> 9) add a history feature
>