Bug 1045739 - f3 split panel feature removed from nautilus
Summary: f3 split panel feature removed from nautilus
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: nautilus
Version: 29
Hardware: All
OS: All
urgent
urgent
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Matthias Clasen
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-12-21 16:17 UTC by Jacek Pliszka
Modified: 2019-07-24 17:26 UTC (History)
10 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of: 894431
Environment:
Last Closed: 2019-07-24 17:26:05 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Jacek Pliszka 2013-12-21 16:17:33 UTC
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #894431 +++

Description of problem:
Well known key f3 for splitting the panel is now not working, actually, this feature have disappeared completely.  This was crucial advantage of nautilus above other filemanagers like eg thunar
It hssould not be the way of gnome to *remove* _good_ features. It is enough that we must live with gnome hell or xfce.. (or mate...)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
f18-f20

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.open nautilus filemanager
2.press f3 or search menus for split function
3.jump from window after not finding it
  
Actual results:
blood under the window

Expected results:
panel will be split.

Additional info:
Not to remove features! To add!

:(

--- Additional comment from  on 2013-02-08 10:00:54 EST ---

yes please! we miss it!

it was a very good feature.

so much better than the "copy to.." or "move to.." features that were added!!

--- Additional comment from Filip Hrbek on 2013-05-17 04:12:58 EDT ---

Yes. I was hitting F3 harder and harder until I almost broke my keyboard. I could not believe that the file manager could have been "improved" by removing yet another "confusing" feature.

The actual result is that now we have a Windows-XP-like file manager that I always hated for the lack of features and kept installing other alternatives to get a two-panel manager before I switched to a Linux desktop computer.

I wish I meet the person who decided that this feature would be removed...

Please, put it back until I jump from the window.

Thanks.

--- Additional comment from Jacek Pliszka on 2013-08-25 07:40:07 EDT ---

Please do it - until then I have nautilus removed - this is an essential feature for me.

--- Additional comment from jiri vanek on 2013-09-03 09:38:20 EDT ---

yy, agree here. I had moved to caja because of it...
Well now moved to mate with nemo... good work really :-/

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Comment 2 Jan Kurik 2015-07-15 14:44:04 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 23 development cycle.
Changing version to '23'.

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Comment 3 jiri vanek 2015-07-28 14:09:55 UTC
Nautilus is nearly unusable without it.  People are moving to Caja or similar just because of it. And gnomehell do not like other windows managers.

Comment 4 Jacek Pliszka 2015-07-30 06:16:45 UTC
I am not using nautilus any more.

I use nemo instead.

Comment 5 Leslie Satenstein 2015-10-23 15:30:27 UTC
Nautilus needs this feature restored

Comment 6 Jan Kurik 2016-02-24 15:45:09 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 24 development cycle.
Changing version to '24'.

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Comment 7 Leslie Satenstein 2016-06-22 13:35:27 UTC
When is this feature going to be restored?  I miss it. It saves many many keystrokes.

Comment 8 Clinton Minton 2016-08-15 00:28:29 UTC
Please restore this.

Comment 9 jiri vanek 2016-08-15 11:09:20 UTC
This bug is going on since 2013-01-11. Thats shameful.

There are two mause gestures which can put nautilus window to left half xor right half of monitor.

If original f3 result is to harsh to current nautilua, maybe it can wrap the geastures?
So it will pt the current window to one side, create new window and put it to left side?

Comment 10 Jiri Eischmann 2016-08-15 13:25:22 UTC
(In reply to jiri vanek from comment #9)
> This bug is going on since 2013-01-11. Thats shameful.
> 
> There are two mause gestures which can put nautilus window to left half xor
> right half of monitor.
> 
> If original f3 result is to harsh to current nautilua, maybe it can wrap the
> geastures?
> So it will pt the current window to one side, create new window and put it
> to left side?

We're not planning to reintroduce the split panel feature. Nautilus is primarily a single panel file browser and we have tasks with higher priority to complete.

Any feature suggestions should be submitted in upstream bugzilla. To me, it seems like an interesting idea, but it may have design flaws, so it needs to be well thought through.

Comment 11 jiri vanek 2016-08-16 08:07:29 UTC
But do you realize that gnome3 was originally released with "f3 on"? So this is regression.

Comment 12 Leslie Satenstein 2016-08-17 02:56:45 UTC
Needs to be restored for F25, as it was functional, don't you think?

Comment 13 Leslie Satenstein 2017-05-08 15:10:02 UTC
Will we see it restored for F26?

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Comment 16 jiri vanek 2017-12-13 10:01:35 UTC
Keep missing.

Comment 17 Jiri Eischmann 2017-12-13 11:36:45 UTC
(In reply to jiri vanek from comment #16)
> Keep missing.

Keeping this bug report alive is not going to bring that feature back. The answer is still the same: Nautilus is a single-panel file browser, the split-panel is not on our roadmap and we're not planning to reintroduce it.

Comment 18 jiri vanek 2017-12-13 11:59:09 UTC
Hm. Sad to hear.  Considering how the component nesting works, and how small was the patch removing it....

Comment 19 Jacek Pliszka 2017-12-13 12:41:40 UTC
I would love to come back to nautilus (default GNOME) and that's why I keep this report alive.

Thanks to that every half a year I am getting confirmation the following is right:

DO NOT USE NAUTILUS!  REPLACE IT BY NEMO!

Comment 20 jiri vanek 2017-12-13 12:44:02 UTC
yup. So am I. I switched to Caja....

Comment 21 jiri vanek 2017-12-14 17:35:11 UTC
(In reply to Jiri Eischmann from comment #17)
> (In reply to jiri vanek from comment #16)
> > Keep missing.
> 
> Keeping this bug report alive is not going to bring that feature back. The
> answer is still the same: Nautilus is a single-panel file browser, the
> split-panel is not on our roadmap and we're not planning to reintroduce it.

Jiri,

In communication about this issue long ago, which I did not found a record now, you mentioned, that this feature can be handled by "drag nautilus to one of the corners (it place itself into half of the screen) then new window, and drag to the second corner"

Can this behaviour be hidden into f3 stroke?

Comment 22 Jan Kurik 2018-05-31 09:11:15 UTC
This bug is currently reported against a Fedora version which is already unsuported.
I am changing the version to '27', the latest supported release.

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Comment 24 Jacek Pliszka 2018-11-27 16:11:47 UTC
This is still the single most annoying thing for me in the fresh Fedora install - I have to replace Nautilus with Nemo.

If Nautilus is a single pane browser - maybe there is a chance for some kind of aggregator that holds 2 single panel Nautiluses together...

Another solution would be to replace Nautilus with Nemo...

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Comment 26 Jacek Pliszka 2019-05-03 09:10:08 UTC
Still the most annoying omission from Nautilus (2nd being connect to server and 3rd opening terminal).

Still forced to use Nemo because of it.

Comment 27 Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller 2019-07-24 17:26:05 UTC
Closing this bug as wontfix as we will not be working on resolving this in Fedora. I recommend working with the upstream project to look at this if you care enough about the issue, but my general impression here is that unless a patch is provided and agreed to with upstream maintainer you are unlikely to see these features added to Nautilus.


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