Bug#284321: nautilus: Forces user to hit "OK", like some other broken OS.

M Mestnik) (Shared Account cheako911@yahoo.com, 284321@bugs.debian.org
Sun, 05 Dec 2004 08:13:56 -0600


Package: nautilus
Version: 2.8.2-2
Severity: normal

I know that many ppl have not been acustom to the textual abbuse displayed
by some operating systems.  I understand how tempting it might have been to
included such a codepath in nautilus.

I inserted a USB ram stick and gnome-volume-manage got the name wrong.
"/media/Debian040Inst" instead of "/media/Debian Inst", this caused me to be
presented with a most disterbing flame.

(-) Coulden't find "/media/Debian040Inst".
Please check the spelling and try again.
                             [OK]

This should not happen on any respectfull OS.  The error msg is clearly out
of bounds, as I didn't type any thing so how can I change my spelling.  The
real fix is to remove the Dialog as it's been proven time and time again that
these devices are NOT HELPFULL.

In place STRERR should be the place to present the user with these kinds of
things.  Gnome should provide a means for ~/.xsession-errors to be loged to
the screen.  This log could be opend by nautilus and told to auto close after 3
seconds.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (950, 'testing'), (150, 'unstable'), (140, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-k7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages nautilus depends on:
ii  capplets                  1:2.8.1-3      configuration applets for GNOME 2 
ii  desktop-file-utils        0.9-1          Utilities for .desktop files
ii  libart-2.0-2              2.3.16-6       Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0               1.8.0-3        The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libaudiofile0             0.2.6-5        Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libbonobo2-0              2.8.0-3        Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0            2.8.0-2        The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                     2.3.2.ds1-18   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libeel2-2                 2.8.2-1        Eazel Extensions Library (for GNOM
ii  libesd0                   0.2.35-2       Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libexif10                 0.6.9-4        The EXIF library allows you to par
ii  libgail-common            1.8.0-2        GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgail17                 1.8.0-2        GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgconf2-4               2.8.1-4        GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0               1:2.4.0-1      Library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.4.7-1        The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2        2.8.1-2        Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome2-0               2.8.0-5        The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0         2.8.0-1        A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0              2.8.0-3        The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0            2.8.3-6        The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.4.13-1       The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libnautilus2-2            2.8.2-2        libraries for nautilus components 
ii  liborbit2                 1:2.10.2-1.1   libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
hi  libpango1.0-0             1.6.0-3        Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                  1.7-5          lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  librsvg2-2                2.8.1-1        SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libsm6                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System Session Management
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.7-1          library for program launch feedbac
ii  libx11-6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxml2                   2.6.11-5       GNOME XML library
ii  nautilus-data             2.8.2-2        data files for nautilus
ii  shared-mime-info          0.15-1         FreeDesktop.org shared MIME databa
ii  xlibs                     4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.2-3      compression library - runtime

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