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Improving Nautilus
Saturday, July 30, 2005 ★ 18:20 ★ Categories Gnome, Programming
The new Nautilus in GNOME 2.12 really rocks. Now it’s possible to expand folders inside a spatial Nautilus window.
Expanded folders in spatial mode.
Keyboard navigation was a little bit broken, though. Type-ahead find swallowed the +, -, * and / keys, so that they couldn’t be used any longer for expanding and collapsing folders using the keyboard. I filed bug #312046 and fixed it:
- Ignore +, * and / when doing type-ahead find, so that they always work.
- Special-case the – sign, so that it only works if you previously typed another character.
Why? +, * and / are unlikely characters for a filename, whereas – is very common.
Update: Yay, the patch is committed!
I’ve also cooked up a trivial patch for bug #310546 that removes the dangerous ctrl-backspace keybinding. Accidentally removing a directory if you intended to browse to the parent directory is not funny.
So, that’s 2 patches. I’m not a C programmer and had never seen the nautilus source code, so I’m proud! Hooray for me!
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Who wrote all this?
Wouter Bolsterlee, also known as uws, a postmodern geek living in the Netherlands. Read more about me…
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