Bug#776403: nautilus: Nuatilus needs a status bar and/or status panel outside of the main window

[Len Huppe]

Package: nautilus
Version: 3.14.1-2
Severity: minor

Dear Maintainer,

I recently completed a project that required extensive use of the Nautilus file
manager app. I have noticed a minor albeit annoying bug. Here is some food for
thought:

The main window has a popup that appears with contextual information. While
this is a good thing for many users, the popup sometimes covers up the contents
of the main window. Quite honestly, this is very annoying at times. The Ubuntu
version of nautilus had a status bar that sat below the main window, and that
kept the popup from hiding any of the contents of the main window. Another
option would be to have the popup appear at the bottom of the side panel since
that area is often open (at least in my case it is).




Thank you for all that you do.

Your friend,

Len Huppe





-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages nautilus depends on:
ii  desktop-file-utils         0.22-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas  3.14.1-1
ii  gvfs                       1.22.2-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                2.14.0-1
ii  libc6                      2.19-13
ii  libcairo-gobject2          1.14.0-2.1
ii  libcairo2                  1.14.0-2.1
ii  libexempi3                 2.2.1-2
ii  libexif12                  0.6.21-2
ii  libgail-3-0                3.14.5-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0         2.31.1-2+b1
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.42.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-data            2.42.1-1
ii  libgnome-desktop-3-10      3.14.1-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                 3.14.5-1
ii  libnautilus-extension1a    3.14.1-2
ii  libnotify4                 0.7.6-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0             1.36.8-3
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0        1.36.8-3
ii  libselinux1                2.3-2
ii  libtracker-sparql-1.0-0    1.2.4-1
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.6.2-3
ii  libxml2                    2.9.1+dfsg1-4
ii  nautilus-data              3.14.1-2
ii  shared-mime-info           1.3-1

Versions of packages nautilus recommends:
ii  eject                      2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-13.1
ii  gnome-icon-theme-symbolic  3.12.0-1
ii  gnome-sushi                3.12.0-2+b1
ii  gvfs-backends              1.22.2-1
ii  librsvg2-common            2.40.5-1

Versions of packages nautilus suggests:
ii  brasero                3.11.4-1
ii  eog                    3.14.1-1
ii  evince [pdf-viewer]    3.14.1-1
ii  totem                  3.14.0-2
ii  tracker                1.2.4-1
ii  vlc [mp3-decoder]      2.2.0~rc2-2
ii  vlc-nox [mp3-decoder]  2.2.0~rc2-2
ii  xdg-user-dirs          0.15-2

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