Ubuntu
nautilus package

Xenial flashback session lacks access to nautilus preferences menu

Bug #1565780 reported by Erick Brunzell
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This bug affects 8 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
nautilus (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

As the title says, the nautilus preferences menu can't be accessed in the flashback session. You can't edit a number of settings without going to dconf-editor of playing with gsettings. Just a few examples:

#1: Can't change sort folders before files setting
#2: Can't change number of clicks needed to open files/folders
#3: Can't change icon caption settings
#4: Can't change order of information settings for list view
#5: Can't change preview settings

In a GNOME Shell session the preferences menu is accessed by right clicking the nautilus tab in the window list while nautilus is open. In Unity it's accessed by clicking on Edit in the menu bar. Flashback lacks the ability to do either.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: gnome-panel 1:3.18.2-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-16.32-generic 4.4.6
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-16-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME-Flashback:Unity
Date: Mon Apr 4 07:50:27 2016
GsettingsChanges:
 b'org.gnome.gnome-panel.layout' b'object-id-list' b"['window-list', 'workspace-switcher', 'clock-applet', 'sensors-applet', 'indicator-applet', 'menu-button', 'trash-applet', 'inhibit-applet', 'launcher', 'launcher-0', 'launcher-1', 'cpu-freq-applet']"
 b'org.gnome.gnome-panel.layout' b'toplevel-id-list' b"['bottom-panel']"
 b'org.gnome.gnome-panel.run-dialog' b'show-program-list' b'true'
 b'org.gnome.gnome-panel.run-dialog' b'history' b"['xrandr']"
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-11-10 (146 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha amd64 (20151109)
SourcePackage: gnome-panel
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Erick Brunzell (lbsolost) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gnome-panel (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Alberts Muktupāvels (muktupavels) wrote :

If this is duplicate of bug 1554878, then nautilus first needs fixing these patches:
- 0002-Only-use-a-header-bar-in-GNOME-shell.patch
- 15_use-ubuntu-help.patch
- 16_unity_new_documents.patch
 -ubuntu_tracker_only_on_GNOME.patch

Dmitry, can you do it? But it looks like it will not be enough - we need menubar (or appmenu button), but it does not show when running with XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=Unity.

Nautilus has restore-traditional-menu-bar.patch which might need some update? Also there is comment about unity-gtk-module, might be needed for menubar? Do we load it?

Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e)
Changed in gnome-panel (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57) wrote :

> Dmitry, can you do it?

No time, sorry. If someone volunteers to create/update patches for Nautilus, I can merge and upload them.

Alberts Muktupāvels (muktupavels)
affects: gnome-panel (Ubuntu) → nautilus (Ubuntu)
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dronus (paul-geisler) wrote :

I think we have a much deeper problem here: Some apps (nautlilus, control panel, gitg, ....) are using new features (like the launcher icon context menu, mabye first provided by Unity, borderless windows etc.) and do not provide a reliable fallback for old desktops.

So if the new features prove useful, the old desktops should retrofit them somehow (eg. making for example gnome-fallback handle external application menus like the Unity launcher icon menus) or the libs used to access these features should provide an internal fallback mechanism. A borderless window should never be shown without resize handles if it would have some in Unity.

It is bad to load up the developers of apps with the handling of this new features, as many of them would fall to "new style" promises and would produce Unity-only apps this way.

I am very pissed of by these shortsigthed developments, that lead to Ubuntu being an almost Unity-only system as of 16.04 now, with myriads of problems in any desktop other then Unity.

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