Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: nautilus
This is a very frustrating bug that remains in Gnome 2.24.1: Nautilus
2.24.1. I think this is a bug and not really a wishlist item.
Reproduce it:
1. Open home dir in Nautilus.
2. Select a subdirectory of home, say "my_dir".
3. Open that dir by hitting Enter or Ctrl+o.
4. Click Nautilus' "BACK" button.
5. BUG: Actual Behavior is that the selection is cleared. Expected behavior is
that the selection remain from the last time I viewed that directory.
Caveat and inconsistency:
1. Open home dir in Nautilus.
2. Select a subdirectory of home, say "my_dir".
3. Open that dir by hitting Enter or Ctrl+o.
4. Click Nautilus' "UP" button.
5. The behavior that I would expect for going BACK is is found! The
subdirectory ("my_dir") is now in the selection. In fact, would say this could
be another bug as well. I expect the "UP" action to act as if I am navigating
to a new directory, a fresh start. I do not want the directory I was in to be
selected.
Perhaps the code for BACK and UP got swapped accidentally?
Example use case: I want to examine a directory's contents before doing
something with it (copying, moving, deleting, etc.):
1. Open my home directory in Nautilus.
2. Double-click some directory, say "my_dir" to view its contents.
3. I see that it's some stuff I want to copy to a flash drive.
4. Use Nautilus' "Back" button to go back to my home directory.
5. Assuming that the "my_dir" directory remains selected, I can easily pick it
out in the long list of files without worrying if I got the right one or not.
I can even do a Edit->Copy without having to find "my_dir" again and reselect.
This bug may be related to Bug #64287 (spatial nautilus should remember
selected items), but that deals with "spatial" nautilus and with closed windows.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
Package: nautilus 1:2.24.1-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic x86_64
** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug
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Selection not remembered when navigating back/forward in browser mode
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/362091
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