"Wishlist" for Unity8 File Manager

[Jo-Erlend Schinstad]

On 2 February 2014 02:00, <gaomb1 at openmailbox.org> wrote:

> Oliver Grawert left word to file Wishlist Bugs for an Unity8 File Manager.
> Following are File Manager features I hope Unity8 will preserve:
>

[snip]


> 10) PLEASE allow users to remove the "Recent" entry in the side-pane under
> the "Computer" heading. I never use "Recent" and don't want that to show in
> the side-pane stack. After ubuntu-12.04, Nautilus shows a "Recent" heading
> at the top of the side-pane stack.
>
> 11) When a user saves a file, have the file manager open to a reasonable
> location. ubuntu-12.04 Nautilus opens to "Recently Used." This is
> completely useless. Nobody saves files to "Recently Used." It would be nice
> if it auto-opened to a user-specified location. If it opened to Home
> folder, this would be okay.
>


This is difficult to understand, except if you're under the impression that
Recently Used is something special and not simply automatic bookmarks to
the directories you've used most frequently. The claim that nobody saves
files to directories they've recently used, is obviously wrong. I save
files to my Documents folder all the time, for instance. There's nothing
special about a recently used directory, except you're probably going to
use it again soon.

If you don't want a specific directory to be listed, you can specify that
in the privacy settings, for instance, if you don't want your Downloads
directory to be listed as a recently used directory.



> Nautilus has a lot of nice features. Hopefully you will keep all the
> good-stuff Nautilus has. I strongly prefer Nautilus to Windows-Explorer
> (Windows-OS) or Finder (Mac-OS) for example.
>
>

Just to be clear; they're not talking about Nautilus. Nautilus can't be
used since it's based on GTK+ whereas Ubuntu SDK requires Qt/QML.
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