Changes/Nautilus Improvements

Nautilus Improvements

Summary

Tie up some of the loose ends that were leftover after the nautilus design refresh work that has happened a while ago.

Owner

• Name: Carlos Soriano
• Email: csoriano@redhat.com
• Release notes owner:

• Product: Workstation
• Responsible WG: Workstation WG

Current status

• Targeted release: Fedora 22
• Last updated: 2015-01-08
• Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>

Detailed Description

• A big cleanup for the nautilus code base: port from GtkAction to GAction
• Implement view, gear and app menus according to the design
• Address some longstanding annoyances:
  • Ctrl-Delete vs Delete
  • Floating statusbar

Benefit to Fedora

A well-designed file manager with less annoyances makes the users of this application happy Fedora users.

Scope

• Proposal owners:
  • Get the wip/gaction branch reviewed and merged
  • Write a patch to change from Ctrl-Delete to Delete with an undo notification
  • Implement a different solution for the floating statusbar

• Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

• Release engineering: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

• Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Upgrade/compatibility impact

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

How To Test

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

User Experience

See https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/master/nautilus/nautilus-menus.png for the new menu layout. N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Dependencies

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Contingency Plan

• Contingency mechanism: (What to do? Who will do it?) N/A (not a System Wide Change)
• Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
• Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change), Yes/No
• Blocks product? product

Documentation

N/A (not a System Wide Change)