Hello, I want to report two bugs in the built-in file explorer in Ubuntu Desktop 18.04. I can't be bothered to first create a Launchpad account, so I'm sending my bug report to this e-mail address instead and hope that it will end up in the hands of the responsible developers. You should really make an effort to simplify for users who are willing to take the time to troubleshoot and contribute with bug reports...
Bug no. 1: The other day I moved all the files from one folder to another with the cut+paste method, and then I deleted the now (presumably) empty source folder. However, I then noticed that only about 20% of the files had actually been moved, and the rest had been deleted along with the original folder. I see two possible explanations for this bug. They are both related to the fact that the file explorer program apparently carries out subsequent file operations asynchronously (as opposed to queuing them), even when they apply to the same files/folders, which can cause race conditions. Either the cut operation didn't apply to all the files in the original folder: I used Ctrl+A to select all the files before pressing Ctrl+X, but perhaps the cut operation was executed before all the files had been selected (the folder contained quite a large number of files, and there is usually a delay after entering a folder during which the thumbnails are being refreshed). The other possible explanation is that all the files *were* being moved, but then the delete operation was carried out before the move operation had time to finish. Also, it might be relevant that the source folder was a direct sub-folder of the target folder, which means that the files became "siblings" to their previous containing folder as their were being moved. One further explanation for the bug could be that after I selected the source folder to delete it, the remaining files appeared just in time and became selected at the same time, thus being deleted along with the folder. Again, a race condition. This is a very serious bug. I will never see those files again, as I used Ctrl+Del when deleting the source folder. Bug no. 2: The following happens for me very frequently. Say I have the following folder structure: A |- B |- C |- some other files/folders... I'm currently browsing the folder B. Then I go up one level, to A, by pressing backspace. I then immediately double-click on the icon for C to enter into it. Very frequently, this instead takes me back into folder B. What appears to be happening is that when I go up from B to A, if I double-click the icon for C while the thumbnails in A are being refreshed, the program registers that I have double-clicked something, but after the thumbnail refresh has finished, the "selected folder" reverts back to B. Hence, the program thinks I double-clicked the icon for B instead. I'm available at this e-mail address for follow-up questions. Yours Sincerely, Linus -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality
