@Dominik Thanks so much for you attention to the bug I reported. I am really pleased that you have taken the time to look at this. I would like to query your decision to mark this bug as opinion. I have noticed that some other operating systems also exhibit this behaviour and so it may be to some extent 'culturally normalized'. But the bare facts are that nautilus is displaying erroneous information. This *could* even be harmful if a user chose to believe the information being displayed and let it inform decisions about disk space management.
I am not sure of the exact criteria for classifying a bug as opinion so I am happy to be corrected by someone more knowledgeable but I just thought I would check. Thanks! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1171771 Title: Indicate directory size calculation in properties dialog Status in Nautilus: Opinion Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: This bug can be reproduced by selecting a directory with a large number of files occupying significant disk space (e.g. > 1GB). Right click the directory in nautilus and select properties. Expected behaviour: In the "Contents" field of the "properties" dialog box nautilus should display the correct number of files in the directory and sub-directories and the disk space used (e.g. "67,292 items, totalling 10.3 GB"). Or nautilus should indicate that this information is unknown and/or being computed. Actual behaviour: nautilus displays incorrect values for the number of items and disk space (always an underestimate), which periodically update (increase) until the correct values are reached. Between updates there is no indication that the values are still being computed or that the currently displayed values are wrong. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: nautilus 1:3.4.2-0ubuntu7 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-40.64-generic 3.2.40 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-40-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue Apr 23 10:00:10 2013 GsettingsChanges: org.gnome.nautilus.window-state geometry '894x654+784+367' org.gnome.nautilus.window-state sidebar-width 149 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1) MarkForUpload: True ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_GB:en PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: nautilus UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-05-22 (335 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nautilus/+bug/1171771/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
