List view broken

Bug #70143 reported by Kevin Havener
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nautilus (Ubuntu)
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Undecided
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Launch Nautilus by clicking on desktop computer icon. Change view to list.
Nothing is displayed. Change back to icon view. Icons display correctly.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks for your bug. What version of Ubuntu do you use? Do you use the spatial or browser mode? Does it happen with any folder? Do you have anything to .xsession-errors about that? Could you make a screenshot of the corresponding window?

Changed in nautilus:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Kevin Havener (kevin-havener) wrote :

Edgy. Default Ubuntu desktop. Spatial browser I guess--that's the one that pops a new window for each folder you open--right. Seems to happen with any folder. I'll work on the .xsession errors and the screenshot in my next post.

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Kevin Havener (kevin-havener) wrote :

I guess I should have been clearer. Edgy upgraded from Dapper. The original jumping off point was the default Dapper desktop which was upgraded to Edgy.

I'll attach my screenshot first. Steps I used to get it. 1) open xterm so I can see .xsession-errors. Double-click on Computer icon to open nautilus window. Double-click on filesystem icon, opening another nautilus window. Go back to computer window. Change view from icon to list and nothing shows up. Compare the two windows. Only the view has been changed between them.

I'll attach my xsession-errors next since I can only attach one thing at a time and I'm not sure you can see the text well enough in the screenshot.

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Kevin Havener (kevin-havener) wrote :

Here is my .xsession-errors. May get this twice--Don't think by last attempt to attach this succeeded.

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Kevin Havener (kevin-havener) wrote :

Problem resolved. I went to Edit --> Preferences --> List Columns. None of the buttons were checked. Once I began checking them, things began to appear in the list view. I'm surprised none of the choices were turned on by default. So it's probably not a bug, but your configuration folks should probably turn on a couple of items by default. If this distribution is to be easy to use, I would think that users would expect something to show up immediately when "List View" is selected as it does in Windows. Shouldn't have had to go looking for things to display.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks for your bug. There is some columns listed by default, that's probably the schemas registration which didn't work correctly, marking as duplicate of bug #50150

Changed in nautilus:
status: Needs Info → Rejected
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